Influence of gender on clinical presentation, management practices and outcomes of ocular syphilis.

Ocular syphilis is a re-emerging inflammatory eye disease with a clear gender imbalance, disproportionately affecting men. We investigated the impact of gender on the presentation, management practices and clinical outcomes of this condition. Data generated from a study of patients consecutively diagnosed with ocular syphilis who attended a subspecialist uveitis service at one of four hospitals in Brazil over a 30-month period were disaggregated for analysis by gender.

Double Trouble: Challenges in the Diagnosis and Management of Ocular Syphilis in HIV-infected Individuals.

Syphilis and HIV infection may coexist in the same individual. Ocular syphilis and/or neurosyphilis may develop at any stage of coinfection, with a stronger association between ocular and neurosyphilis in individuals living with HIV, than in HIV-uninfected individuals. The diagnosis of ocular syphilis in HIV-infected and -uninfected patients remains with some controversy due to unspecific clinical manifestations and limited diagnostic tests.

Presumed Unilateral Acute Idiopathic Maculopathy following H1N1 Vaccination.

: To report a case of unilateral acute idiopathic maculopathy (UAIM) following vaccination for type A influenza virus (H1N1).: Clinical, fundus autofluorescence (FAF), fluorescein angiography (FA) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings are presented.: A 25-year old white male presented with an acute decrease of vision in his left eye eight days after immunization with influenza A vaccine.

The ghost of the great imitator: prognostic factors for poor outcome in syphilitic uveitis.

Background: Syphilitic uveitis is reemerging globally, may lead to any type of intraocular inflammation, and is potentially sight-threatening. We aim to characterize clinical features and prognostic factors in patients with syphilitic posterior uveitis.

Methods: Retrospective chart review at two tertiary university-based referral centers in Brazil.

Author Correction: Clinical Manifestations and Ophthalmic Outcomes of Ocular Syphilis at a Time of Re-Emergence of the Systemic Infection.

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Clinical Manifestations and Ophthalmic Outcomes of Ocular Syphilis at a Time of Re-Emergence of the Systemic Infection.

Recent reports from different world regions suggest ocular syphilis is re-emerging, in parallel with an increasing incidence of the systemic infection globally. We conducted a large observational study of 127 persons consecutively treated for ocular syphilis at public medical centers in Brazil over a 2.5-year period ending July 2015.

Fulminant proliferative vitreoretinopathy in syphilitic uveitis.

Background: Syphilis is a reemerging sexually transmitted disease that can lead to any type of intraocular inflammation. Prognosis of syphilitic uveitis after appropriate therapy is classically regarded as favorable. However, visual threatening complications may develop, rarely including rhegmatogenous/tractional retinal detachment (R/T RD) and proliferative vitreoretinopathy.