1. Acute Syphilitic Posterior Placoid Chorioretinitis in a Saudi Patient.
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Shajry I, Akeely A, and AlSulaiman S
- Subjects
- Acute Disease, Adult, Anti-Bacterial Agents therapeutic use, Chorioretinitis diagnosis, Chorioretinitis drug therapy, Eye Infections, Bacterial diagnosis, Eye Infections, Bacterial drug therapy, Fluorescein Angiography methods, Humans, Infusions, Intravenous, Male, Multimodal Imaging, Penicillin G therapeutic use, Saudi Arabia, Syphilis diagnosis, Syphilis drug therapy, Syphilis Serodiagnosis, Tomography, Optical Coherence methods, Chorioretinitis microbiology, Eye Infections, Bacterial microbiology, Syphilis microbiology
- Abstract
A 37-year-old otherwise healthy male presented with paracentral scotoma in his right eye for 1 day with a history of having unprotected sex with multiple partners. The patient was diagnosed to have acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis with multimodal imaging including spectral-domain optical coherence tomography and fundus fluorescein angiography. His condition improved after 2 weeks course of intravenous benzyl penicillin 1.2 g every 4 h in collaboration with infectious disease physician., Competing Interests: There are no conflicts of interest., (Copyright: © 2020 Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology.)
- Published
- 2020
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