Seronegative Ocular and Neurosyphilis*

Smith, J. Lawton; Singer, Joseph A.; Moore, M. Brittain; Yobs, Anne R.

doi:10.1016/0002-9394(65)93001-1

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“…Francois & Verriest [7] list 14 possible exogenous agents, mostly infectious, which could produce the condition. In particular, syphilitic chorioretinitis may resemble retinitis pigmentosa and can be unilateral [19]. However, the results of serological studies of patients with uniocular pigmentary degeneration reported by Carr & Siegel [3], Shoji [18], Weiss & Nicholl [23], and Lauring [14], were all negative, as those in this report.…”

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confidence: 48%

Unilateral retinitis pigmentosa associated with exfoliation syndrome

1988

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A case of a 71-year-old woman showing pigmentary degeneration of the retina associated with posterior subcapsular cataract in one eye, with a normal fellow eye, is presented. Clinical examinations of the patient were performed in order to rule out the various causes which are known to produce funduscopic features that mimic retinitis pigmentosa. Since these investigations were all negative, the fundus changes were interpreted as a unilateral retinitis pigmentosa. One year later, the patient was re-examined and an exfoliation syndrome was discovered in the affected eye, while the fellow eye was unchanged. An association of unilateral retinitis pigmentosa and exfoliation syndrome in the same eye can be regarded as exceptional. The possibility of a correlation of the pathogenetic mechanisms involved in the development of both conditions is discussed.

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confidence: 48%

Unilateral retinitis pigmentosa associated with exfoliation syndrome

1988

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“…Even though the results of the routine reagin serologic test for syphilis are repeatedly nonreactive, an FTA‐ABS and/or TPI test should be made in the attempt to establish an etiologic diagnosis. In a recent study by Smith and collaborators (14–16) of patients with ocular syphilis and neurosyphilis, 175 serums showed reactions with the FTA‐ABS test and/or the TPI test; 65 per cent reacted to both tests; 28 per cent reacted to the FTA‐ABS but not the TPI; and 6.3 per cent reacted to the TPI but not the FTA‐ABS test. Only 81 per cent of the 175 serums showed reactions (even weak ones) to VDRL testing.…”

Section: The Diagnosis Of Syphilismentioning

confidence: 99%

Proper Interpretation of Serologic Tests for Syphilis in the Aged*

Nicholas

1967

J American Geriatrics Society

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“…The animals were housed in separate cages; they received no treatment whatever, and were followed with serial clinical and serological examinations, in the manner previously reported (Taylor, Smith, and Singer, 1965;Smith, Singer, Reynolds, Moore, Yobs, and Clark, 1965;Wells and Smith, 1967c Because of the equivocal FTA-ABS tests in this monkey (see Table I), and because, in cases with this serological pattern, we had sometimes found treponemes in clinically quiet eyes , a paracentesis of the anterior chamber was performed on the right eye on April 6, 1967, i.e. 7 months after intradermal inoculation.…”

Section: Treatmentmentioning

confidence: 99%