Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
Pivot Concepts:   Target Concepts:
Query: UMLS:C0012833 (dizziness)
 9,689 document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)

A 43-year-old woman with alcoholism developed hearing loss, dizziness, unsteady walking, frequent urination, memory disorders, and later a manifest drop of bilateral vision. The patient denied syphilis. Examinations revealed bilateral panuveitis, bilateral neurosensory amblyacusia, vestibulopathy, and imperative urges to urination. Serological tests were positive with both Treponema and other than Treponema antigens. The cerebrospinal fluid was normal. Ampicillin therapy was ineffective. The clinical picture, diagnosis, and treatment of syphilitic uveitis are discussed; the authors point out that it is often associated with neurosyphilis. The condition is extremely rare nowadays.
 ...
PMID:[A case of syphilitic uveitis]. 962 26

A 36-year-old man visited our hospital because of blurred vision and redness of the conjunctiva. Slit-lamp examination showed panuveitis. Two days later, he suddenly experienced dizziness, speech disturbance, paralysis of his right extremities, and gait disturbances. Neurological examinations suggested that his symptoms were caused by a left lateral medullary lesion. He also had erythema mainly on his trunk. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of his brain demonstrated a small infarct on the left side of the medulla oblongata. Clinical presentation and MRI findings were consistent with the diagnosis of a Wallenberg's syndrome. He also had bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy. A skin biopsy showed granulomatous nodular dermatitis compatible with sarcoidosis. He was treated with steroid pulse therapy and his neurological and ocular symptoms immediately improved. Only seven similar cases of intracranical sarcoidosis have been reported, but none had been treated with steroid pulse therapy. We recommend that steroid pulse therapy be considered to treat patients with sarcoidosis with signs of lesions in the central nervous system.
 ...
PMID:Brainstem Infarction and Panuveitis due to Sarcoidosis Successfully Treated with Steroid Pulse Therapy. 2243 30