Search results (6 results)

Mar 30 2021 by Tanya Jain

A 41-year-old homosexual male patient presented with placoid chorioretinitis and was diagnosed with acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis, neurosyphilis and HIV disease. The patient was started with HAART and intravenous antibiotics.

Photographer: Tanya Jain

Condition/keywords: acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis, choroiditis, papillitis

Apr 2 2020 by Olivia Rainey

Ultrawide-field fluorescein angiogram of a 42-year-old male with syphilitic uveitis affecting his right eye more than his left. Patient is HIV positive. He developed hearing loss and palm/leg/scalp rash prompting diagnosis of neurosyphilis, s/p IM and full IV course of 2.4 Mil PCN G, and finished this course 3/9/20. He admits to recent rectal bleeding with ongoing plan for colonoscopy 3/16/20. He has a history of extensive travel including London, Hong Kong, and Bangkok. His husband has also been treated with IV PCN G, however per chart review he has multiple sexual partners. Patient's vision was 20/20 in each eye.

Photographer: Olivia Rainey

Imaging device: Optos California

Condition/keywords: disc hyperfluorescence, FA late phase leakage, fluorescein angiogram (FA), fluorescein leakage, HIV, late phase, optic nerve edema, Optos, phelbitis, syphilis neuroretinopathy, ultra-wide field imaging, uveitis

Sep 3 2020 by Ankur S. Gupta, MD, MS

40-year-old male who presented with blurry vision and hand lesions. Hyperreflective nodularity of the retinal pigment epithelium overlying loss of the normal photoreceptor architecture. Disruption of the external limiting membrane. Loss of the photoreceptor inner segment/outer segment band. Punctate hyperfluorescence in the choroid. Transient subretinal fluid.

Photographer: Kenneth Lam; Geisinger Eye Institute

Condition/keywords: neurosyphilis, uveitis

Nov 22 2020 by Shawn Sell

58-year-old homeless male presenting with 2 weeks of bilateral eye redness and photosensitivity found to have panuveitis with a positive VDRL CSF and RPR titer of 1:512 with acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis.

Photographer: Eastern Virginia Medical School

Imaging device: Optos

Condition/keywords: acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis, neurosyphilis

Oct 20 2024 by César Adrián Gómez Valdivia, MD

Fundus autofluorescence image of an acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis found in a HIV positive 28 YO male patient with suspected neurosyphilis. A beautiful butterfly autofluorescence pattern can be appreciated.

Photographer: @eyemissu2

Imaging device: California ICG OPTOS

Condition/keywords: acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis

Oct 16 2024 by César Adrián Gómez Valdivia, MD

Fundus autofluorescence image of an acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis found in a HIV positive 28 YO male patient with suspected neurosyphilis. A beautiful butterfly autofluorescence pattern can be appreciated.

Photographer: @eyemissu2

Imaging device: California ICG OPTOS

Condition/keywords: acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis, chorioretinitis, syphilis