Tertiary Neurosyphilis – Tertiary neurosyphilis, is the most interesting form of syphilis from a cultural point of view. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This difficult-to-treat strain, called neurosyphilis, can cause blindness and stroke, and a CDC researcher said that it's spreading among this cohort because, although they're already HIV-positive, they are not using condoms. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The letter would further state that he is a registered Democrat and he should therefore be given a “pass” so that he could continue his many business ventures in the great city of Chicago, rather than die of cardiac arrest (possibly associated with the complications of third-stage neurosyphilis) 8 years after completing his sentence for tax evasion at the federal prison located on the island of Alcatraz. pseudonymous in nc Says: ❋ Unknown (2009)
Compound 606 had secretly been tested in patients in the hospital wards of St. Petersburg, then retested in patients with neurosyphilis at the Magdeburg Hospital—each time with remarkable success. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)
Some researchers worry that if core groups of sero-sorting positive men stir up epidemics of multiple drug resistant strains of HIV and other difficult-to-treat STDs like neurosyphilis and then occasionally have sex with negative men -- watch out. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But in the early 1880s the syphilis returned in the form of a neurosyphilis called tabes dorsalis. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In an important study of the disease at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, E. E. Southard and Harry C. Solomon described and analyzed more than a hundred cases of neurosyphilis. ❋ Gerald N. Grob (1994)
His popularity in the United States was derived in part from the widespread preoccupation with the problems associated with neurosyphilis. ❋ Gerald N. Grob (1994)
Syphilis - Three to seven percent of all people with untreated syphilis develop a condition called neurosyphilis. ❋ Ashcraft (2010)
"I'm not even sure if neurosyphilis is associated with fever-it usually occurs long after the initial infection."
If the infant survives without treatment, they then enter a latent period, where they may slowly develop bony and tooth deformities, eye problems, and neurosyphilis leading to psychiatric problems including psychosis and dementia. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Apparently if one's pupil is irregularly shaped it could be due to simply just a genetic variation (which is normal) or more serious things such as iritis, multiple sclerosis, coloboma, previous cataract surgery, and/or neurosyphilis. ❋ Unknown (2009)
