Intravitreal injections with the antibiotic ceftazidime can serve as an effective stop-gap therapy for syphilitic uveitis ...

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Download figure Open in new tab Download powerpoint Figure 1: Secondary syphilis with ocular neurosyphilis in a 42-year-old woman. (A) Epiphora (increased tearing), conjunctival injections and ...

When syphilis affects the eyes, it usually causes inflammation inside them known as uveitis, Khurana says. Eyes may be red, light sensitive or painful, he notes.

“Uveitis from syphilis was almost unheard of 10, 20 years ago,” said Dr. Farzin Forooghian, a University of British Columbia ophthalmologist.

Macular edema is really hard to treat. It often requires ongoing therapy.” It is important to consider the possibility of syphilis in patients with uveitis, she said.

As the crisis unfolds, doctors are seeing more people in the U.S. hospitalized for syphilitic uveitis, or inflammation inside the eye and the most common ocular manifestation of syphilis ...

Joyce lived a thoroughly documented life, but the cause of his lifelong battle with uveitis has never been definitively named. Before the introduction of penicillin in the 1940s, the most common cause ...

Background Ocular syphilis is often difficult to diagnose because of the wide variation in clinical features. HIV co-infection may further complicate the picture. Case presentation Herein the ...

When syphilis affects the eyes, it usually causes inflammation inside them known as uveitis, Khurana says. Eyes may be red, light sensitive or painful, he notes.