Open AccessCurrent clinical and epidemiological features of neurosyphilis
Author(s) -
P V GORODNICHEV,
I A KLEMENOVA,
A. N. Belova,
Владимир Рудольфович Мишанов
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
vestnik dermatologii i venerologii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2313-6294
pISSN - 0042-4609
DOI - 10.25208/vdv750
Subject(s) - neurosyphilis , medicine , syphilis , incidence (geometry) , epidemiology , latent syphilis , pediatrics , meningitis , pathology , family medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , physics , optics
The authors present the results of the analysis of the dynamics of the neurosyphilis incidence rate based on the state statistical reporting data in the Volga Federal District in 2003—2011. According to the authors, there is a growth in new neurosyphilis cases against the background of the reduced incidence rate of syphilis. The authors also revealed that late forms of neurosyphilis dominate in the neurosyphilis incidence structure. They conducted an analysis of anamnestic and clinical data of patients who were diagnosed with neurosyphilis, and discovered and a number of particular features in the current clinical picture of the disease. According to the authors, basal meningitis mainly affecting the optic, oculomotor and eighth cranial nerve is diagnosed most often in case of early-onset neurosyphilis. Latent and often mono-symptom forms with prevalent intellectual, memory and emotional-volitional disorders are characteristic of late neurosyphilis.