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Query: UMLS:C0042384 (
vasculitis
)
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document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
A healthy-appearing male patient presented with signs of unilateral fibrinous iritis, necrotizing retinitis, retinal
vasculitis
, and vitritis, suggestive of a herpesvirus retinitis or acute retinal necrosis syndrome (ARN). The patient, an active homosexual, withheld the details of his sexual history, portraying himself as exclusively heterosexual. With the exception of a positive VDRL and FTA-ABS, the workup was negative. Examination of the cerebrospinal fluid confirmed the presence of neurosyphilis. The patient was successfully treated with intravenous penicillin, which resulted in a complete visual recovery.
Syphilitic retinitis
must be considered in evaluating patients with necrotizing retinitis.
...
PMID:Syphilitic retinitis. A cause of necrotizing retinitis. 653 16
