Email this article AN ISCHEMIC STROKE CAUSED BY MENINGOVASCULAR SYPHILIS
- Authors: Eliseev Y.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow Regional Research and Clinical Institute (MONIKI)
- Issue: No 39 (2015)
- Pages: 136-139
- Section: CLINICAL CASES
- URL: https://almclinmed.ru/jour/article/view/248
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18786/2072-0505-2015-39-136-139
- ID: 248
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Abstract
Fourteen percent of all ischemic strokes occur in young patients (< 45 years). One of the causes of ischemic stroke in young patients is the isolated cerebral arteritis related to a neuroinfection. The author describes a clinical case of ischemic stroke in a young patient with neurosyphilis. Diagnosis of syphilis was confirmed by laboratory investigations; liquor tests and clinical data allowed to put a diagnosis of meningovascular syphilis. Timely diagnostics and treatment of syphilitic infection are helpful in avoiding progression of neurosyphilis, including its parenchymal forms.
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Fourteen percent of all ischemic strokes occur in young patients (< 45 years). One of the causes of ischemic stroke in young patients is the isolated cerebral arteritis related to a neuroinfection. The author describes a clinical case of ischemic stroke in a young patient with neurosyphilis. Diagnosis of syphilis was confirmed by laboratory investigations, liquor tests and clinical data allowed to put a diagnosis of meningovascular syphilis. Timely diagnostics and treatment of syphilitic infection are helpful in avoiding progression of neurosyphilis, including its parenchymal forms. Key words: stroke, neurosyphilis, clinical case.
About the authors
Yu. V. Eliseev
Moscow Regional Research and Clinical Institute (MONIKI)
Author for correspondence.
Email: dreliseevru@gmail.com
Junior Research Fellow, Department of Neurology
Russian FederationReferences
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