[Syphilitic mesaortitis].

A rise in the incidence of latent and late forms of neuro- and visceral syphilis significantly complicates diagnostics of the disease in patients admitted to emergency medicine clinics. Syphilis is believed to be a cause of roughly 0.5% of all cardiopathies.

[The use of immunoenzyme analysis for recording specific IgM antibodies in syphilis patients].

Specific IgM antibodies were assayed in blood sera of 230 patients with various forms of syphilis and of 561 controls. Enzyme immunoassay (EIA) sensitivity has made up 95.8 percent for primary syphilis, 93.