Doxycycline treatment of otosyphilis with hearing loss.

Objectives: The recommended treatment of otosyphilis is intravenous penicillin therapy. The response rate varied between 23% and 31%. This treatment needs hospitalisation and is costly, inconvenient and time consuming.

The best criteria to diagnose metabolic syndrome in hypertensive Thai patients.

The metabolic syndrome (MS) is commonly found in clinical practice. There are many criteria to diagnose MS. The authors did a cross-sectional study to study the difference among the WHO criteria, the National Cholesterol Educational Program (NCEP) Adult Treatment Panel (ATP III), and the International Diabetes Foundation (IDF) in hypertensive patients.

Superior divisional oculomotor nerve palsy caused by midbrain neurocysticercosis.

Superior divisional oculomotor nerve palsy caused by intrinsic brainstem disease occurs rarely. We herein report, to our knowledge, the first case of midbrain neurocysticercosis presenting as isolated superior divisional paresis of the oculomotor nerve. A 25-year-old woman presented with acute onset of headache and ptosis-upgaze palsy of the right eye.

Bone mineral density in rural Thai adults living in Khon Kaen province.

Objectives: To define the bone status and pattern of bone loss in a normal adult population living in a rural area of Khon Kaen province.

Study Design: A descriptive study.

Settings: Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand.