Syphilitic meningitis is a potential complication of a syphilis infection. Meningitis is an infection of the layers of tissues that cover the brain and spinal cord. It can be life threatening, but ...

Intravitreal injections with the antibiotic ceftazidime can serve as an effective stop-gap therapy for syphilitic uveitis while patients await systemic therapy, a retrospective case series suggested.

Syphilis should be considered in the differential diagnosis for lytic osseous lesions. The diagnosis of syphilitic osteitis can be made based on clinical, radiographic, and serologic findings, and ...

Between 2013 and 2024, syphilitic uveitis remained a rare but serious manifestation of syphilis in the United States, predominantly affecting men, older individuals, and patients with concurrent HIV, ...

Syphilitic uveitis cases requiring hospitalization increased from 2010 to 2019 in the U.S., amid a national shortage of the standard-of-care injectable penicillin G, according to a retrospective cross ...

UNTREATED or inadequately treated late syphilis is no longer so frequently seen by the average physician, and its exotic complications are becoming curiosities. The following case presents one of the ...

Syphilitic meningitis is a form of bacterial meningitis that occurs due to a complication of syphilis. Without treatment, it can lead to permanent injury or death. A person can develop syphilitic ...

Intravitreal ceftazidime may help treat syphilitic uveitis when IV penicillin is delayed. Ceftazidime is not a substitute for IV penicillin, which is the preferred treatment. A case series reported ...