Late-stage neurosyphilis presenting with severe neuropsychiatric deficits: Diagnosis, therapy, and course of three patients

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 259, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 720-728

  Jantzen, Sabine Ulrike ^a,b   Ferrea, Stefano ^a   Langebner, Tania ^a   Gaebel, Wolfgang ^a   Griese, Mechthild ^a   Arendt, Gabriele ^c   Dihné, Marcel ^a,c  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Heinrich Heine Universität ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Late stage neurosyphilis; Neuropsychiatric deficits

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ALBUMIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; CEFTRIAXONE; CITALOPRAM; DEXAMETHASONE; HALOPERIDOL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LORAZEPAM; OLANZAPINE; PENICILLIN G; RISPERIDONE;

ADULT; AGITATION; AMNESIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY TITER; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DELUSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORIENTATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSARTHRIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; GERMANY; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; HYGROMA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; INSULA; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MONOCYTE; MYOCLONUS; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSYPHILIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANOIA; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; PERSECUTORY DELUSION; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PSYCHOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEIZURE; SUBCORTEX; SYPHILIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WERNICKE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84862568021     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-011-6252-1     Document Type: Article

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