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Medicina (Buenos Aires)
Print version ISSN 0025-7680On-line version ISSN 1669-9106
Abstract
CAMPORRO, Julieta P.; DEL CASTILLO, Marcelo and MORA, Claudia A.. Ocular syphilis: alert for clinicians and ophthalmologists. Medicina (B. Aires) [online]. 2023, vol.83, n.6, pp.972-975. ISSN 0025-7680.
Syphilis is an infectious disease caused by the spi rochete Treponema pallidum. It can cause ocular compro mise at any stage, in immunocompetent or immunocom promised patients. Even though the ocular form is not frequent, due to the increase in the incidence of syphilis in recent years, it is mandatory to take it into consider ation as a differential diagnosis in visual disorders. The most common clinical presentation is uveitis. Diagnosis is based on the presence of clinical signs and symptoms consistent with ophthalmologic involvement in a patient with syphilis. The CSF study should be performed on a clinical basis, to rule out concomitant neurological involvement. We present 5 cases of ocular syphilis, its clinical manifestations, treatment and evolution.
Keywords : Syphilis; Ocular; Neurosyphilis.