Secondary syphilitic uveitis.
Secondary syphilitic uveitis.
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二期梅毒性葡萄膜炎。
DOI:
10.1016/0002-9394(81)90773-x
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发表时间:
1981
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
Hay,PB
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作者:
Belin,MW;Baltch,AL;Hay,PB
A patient with secondary syphilis had positive serum and cerebroespinal fluid findings. Fluorescent-antibody darkfield testing demonstrated spirochetes (Treponema pallidum) in the aqueous. There were clinical signs of secondary syphilis, including palmar skin lesions and frontal balding, and bilateral nasal altitudinal visual field loss. The discrete, waxy, yellow-white retinal lesions became increasingly pigmented and later migrated anteriorly into the vitreous chamber. The patient was treated with large amounts of penicillin (total dosage, 440 million units) and probenecid. Visual acuity improved to R.E.: 6/9 (20/30) and L.E.: 6/12 (20/40) and the inflammatory reaction disappeared. A second aqueous tap eight weeks after therapy ended showed no spirochetes by fluorescent-antibody testing.