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Do you routinely treat patients with neurosyphilis with IM penicillin for 1-3 weeks after completing a full treatment course of IV penicillin?

CDC Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines, 2021

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Do you recommend routine neurosyphilis testing in patients being evaluated for dementia?

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Do you routinely recommend a lumbar puncture for patients with suspected ocular or otic syphilis in the absence of additional CNS symptoms?

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Do you consider late latent syphilis adequately treated if a patient receives a 10-14 day course of IV ceftriaxone for another indication?

Or would you still offer penicillin G benzathine once weekly concurrently?

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Does a low serofast RPR titer (such as 1:1 or 1:2) in the setting of a remote history of appropriately treated latent syphilis in a patient with now uveitis of yet unknown etiology referred from ophthalmology for possible ocular syphilis make a diagnosis of ocular syphilis less likely?

What is your approach to guiding ophthalmologists regarding our clinical suspicion for ocular syphilis and does the quantification of the titer help i...

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Do you repeat a lumbar puncture in a patient living with HIV diagnosed with and treated for neurosyphilis and if so, when?

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What is the preferred treatment regimen for cardiovascular syphilis, specifically syphilitic ostial coronary artery disease?

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Are there any non-beta-lactam antibiotic options for treatment of neurosyphilis in non-pregnant adults?

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Papers discussed in this category

The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 2021 Jun 18

Clinical and serological outcomes in patients treated with oral doxycycline for early neurosyphilis.

Sexually transmitted diseases, 1993 Nov-Dec

Asymptomatic neurosyphilis after doxycycline therapy for early latent syphilis.

Journal of ophthalmic inflammation and infection, 2015-12

Clinical and laboratory characteristics of ocular syphilis: a new face in the era of HIV co-infection.

JAMA ophthalmology, 2024 Jan 01

Rising Incidence of Syphilitic Uveitis-Related Hospitalizations in the US.

Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 2016 Feb

Clinical Manifestations and Outcome of Syphilitic Uveitis.

The American journal of medicine, 1992-11

Response of latent syphilis or neurosyphilis to ceftriaxone therapy in persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2017 Oct 30

A Multicenter Study Evaluating Ceftriaxone and Benzathine Penicillin G as Treatment Agents for Early Syphilis in Jiangsu, China.

Open forum infectious diseases, 2024 Mar 13

Syphilis Treatment: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Investigating Nonpenicillin Therapeutic Strategies.

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