1. GOOD VISUAL OUTCOME IN A BILATERAL MULTIFOCAL SYPHILITIC CHORIORETINITIS, DESPITE LATE DIAGNOSIS
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Cristina Muccioli, Jhonatan de Paula Araujo Ferreira, Everton Fernandes Vieira de Almeida, Cesar Pereira de Araujo, Gustavo Jose Arruda Mendes Carneiro, Talles Peterson Cavalcante Oria, Ricardo Evangelista Marrocos de Aragão, Nayara Queiroz Cardoso Pinto, and Ieda Maria Alexandre Barreira
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Delayed Diagnosis ,genetic structures ,Fundus Oculi ,Visual Acuity ,Multimodal Imaging ,Eye Infections, Bacterial ,Ocular syphilis ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Optical coherence tomography ,Humans ,Medicine ,Syphilis ,Fluorescein Angiography ,Multimodal imaging ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Syphilitic chorioretinitis ,business.industry ,Fundus photography ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,eye diseases ,Anti-Bacterial Agents ,Ophthalmology ,Chorioretinitis ,Late diagnosis ,Ophthalmologic examination ,Angiography ,030221 ophthalmology & optometry ,Radiology ,business ,Tomography, Optical Coherence ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
PURPOSE To report a case of a good visual outcome in a patient with bilateral multifocal syphilitic chorioretinitis, despite the late diagnosis. METHODS Ophthalmologic examination, multimodal imaging, including fundus photography, angiography, and optical coherence tomography. RESULTS The authors describe a 47-year-old heterosexual man with a bilateral multifocal syphilitic chorioretinitis that was lately diagnosed and despite that had a good visual outcome. CONCLUSION The diagnosis of ocular syphilis is a challenge; however, once it has been made, even lately, it is eminently treatable.
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- 2019
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