Syphilitic retinitis with focal inflammatory accumulations

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 429-431

  Ready, Shantan ^a   Cunningham Jr , Emmett T ^a,b,c   Spaide, Richard F ^a,b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VITREOUS RETINA MACULA CONSULTANTS OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c EAR AND THROAT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; CYCLOPENTOLATE; LAMIVUDINE; NEVIRAPINE; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IRIDOCYCLITIS; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA VASCULITIS; RETINITIS; SYPHILIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33749458011     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20060901-13     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Browning DJ. Posterior segment manifestations of active ocular syphilis, their response to a neurosyphilis regimen of penicillin therapy, and the influence of human immunodeficiency virus status on response. Ophthalmology. 2000;107:2015-2023.
2. Gass DM, Braunstein RA, Chenoweth RG. Acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis. Ophthalmology. 1990;97:1288-1297.
3. Price P, Mathiot N, Kruger R, et al. Immune dysfunction and immune restoration disease in HIV patients given highly active antiretroviral therapy. J Clin Virol. 2001;22:279-287.
4. Paz-Bailey G, Meyers A, Blank S, Stone S, Keane NM, French MA. A case-control study of syphilis among men who have sex with men in New York City: association with HIV infection. Sex Transm Dis. 2004;31:581-587.
5. Stolte IG, Dukers N, de Wit JB, Fennema JS, Coutinho RA. Increase in sexually transmitted infections among homosexual men in Amsterdam in relation to HAART. Sex Transm Infect. 2001;77:184-186.