Medical experts are warning residents in the Northern Territory to get tested for syphilis following an explosion in cases of ...

With overall syphilis rates on the rise, serologic testing for syphilis in patients with uveitis can help prevent permanent vision damage.

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As the crisis unfolds, doctors are seeing more people in the U.S. hospitalized for syphilitic uveitis, or inflammation inside the eye and the most common ocular manifestation of syphilis ...

METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study of ocular syphilis cases diagnosed from 2017 to 2023 in Los Angeles, analyzing 32 patients with a median age of 46 years (78% men).

Still, ocular syphilis accounts for a small percentage of all syphilis cases. "As far as ocular syphilis goes, it's only about 1% of syphilis cases, but it is a real thing and it does have ...

Today’s apparent increase in neurological and ocular symptoms is a throwback to a time before penicillin, when about one-third of syphilis sufferers experienced neurological symptoms.

All syphilis cases in the U.S. jumped 80% from 2018 to 2022, according to the CDC, though cases increased in Illinois by 28% during that same period.

A 2019 study of 41,187 syphilis cases from 16 states found that 1.1% of those cases were ocular syphilis and were more likely (60%) to present in people living with HIV than people who are not.

The CDC warns that without treatment, syphilis can spread to the brain and nervous system (neurosyphilis), the eye (ocular syphilis), or the ear (otosyphilis). (Photo: Freepik) According to news ...

The five women, aged 40-60, all received a diagnosis of ocular syphilis after reporting symptoms including blurred vision, headache, hearing loss, double vision, eye floaters, and light sensitivity.

The five women, aged 40-60, all received a diagnosis of ocular syphilis after reporting symptoms including blurred vision, headache, hearing loss, double vision, eye floaters, and light sensitivity.