Ocular Syphilis with Retinal and Disc Neovascularization Treated with Bevacizumab: A Case Report.

We report the findings observed in a young woman with ocular syphilis complicated with retinal and disc neovascularization successfully treated with intravitreal bevacizumab. Fluorescein angiography revealed in both eyes intense hyperfluorescence at the level of the disc, multifocal venous wall staining, multifocal paravenous leakage, multiple peripheral saccular venular dilations, diffuse retinal and macular edema, and retinal and disc neovascularization. There was no evidence of retinal ischemia in both eyes.

Multisegmental spondylitis due to Tropheryma whipplei: case report.

We report a patient who presented with inflammatory back pain due to multisegmental spondylitis. Following a vertebral biopsy which failed to detect an infectious organism, the patient was treated with etanercept, a tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha inhibitor, for suspected undifferentiated spondyloarthritis. The back pain worsened and the spondylitic lesions increased.