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Otosyphilis: a cause of hearing loss in adults with HIV
Author(s) -
Pasricha Janet M,
Read Tim R,
Street Alan C
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03975.x
Subject(s) - medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , family medicine
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 4 October 2010 193 7 421-422 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au Lessons from Practice of congenital and acquired syphilis. In acquired syp occur at any stage of infection. In the pre-penicillin loss was reported in 17% of patients with early latent i in 80% with symptomatic neurosyphili . Cochleovestibular symptoms of neurosyphilis ca two main mechanisms. First, the eighth cranial ne affected, for example in acute syphilitic meningit he ha ma T recent increase in early syphilis infections in Australia s been accompanied by the re-emergence of disease nifestations unfamiliar to modern clinicians. Otosyphilis is a rare cause of sensorineural hearing loss and dizziness, and is important for clinicians to consider because the hearing loss is potentially reversible with early diagnosis and treatment. We report two cases of otosyphilis occurring in patients infected with HIV. In both cases, the diagnosis of otosyphilis was initially missed, despite review by several specialist medical units. Cochleovestibular dysfunction is a well described complication hilis, it can era, hearing nfection and