When Too Many Positives Are Negative

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Identifier walsh_2004_s4_c5
Title When Too Many Positives Are Negative
Creator Judith E.A. Warner, MD; Kathleen B. Digre, MD; Bradley J. Katz, MD, PhD; Jane W. Chan, MD
Affiliation Salt Lake City, UT; Las Vegas, NV
Subject Optic Atrophy; Optic Neuritis; Neurosyphilis
History A 45-year old male with recurrent cold sores, vertigo with left-sided earache and tinnitus and painless loss of vision OS.
Pathology Anticardiolipin antibodies; Meningovascular disease
Disease/Diagnosis Neurosyphilis
Clinical VA: 20/200 OD, 20/100 OS; Color plates: control only OD, 3/13 OS
Presenting Symptom Painless sequential loss of vision
Neuroimaging MRI
Treatment IV anti-bacterial agents
Date 2004
References 1. Forastiero RR, Martinuzzo ME, Kordich LC, Carreras LO. Reactivity to beta 2 glycoprotein I clearly differentiates anticardiolipin antibodies from antiphospholipid syndrome and syphilis. Thromb Haemost. 1996 May;75(5):717-20. 2. Santiago M, Martinelli R, Ko A et al. Anti-beta2 glycoprotein I and anticardiolipin antibodies in leptospirosis, syphilis and Kala-azar. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2001 Jul-Aug; 19(4):425-30. 3. Gharavi AE and Pierangeli SS. Infections and Antiphospholipid Antibodies. In: Khamashta MA (ed). Hughes Syndrome: Antiphospholipid syndrome, Springer-Verlag, London, 2000:135-143.
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Source 30th Annual North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Meeting, Frank B. Walsh Session CD-ROM
Relation is Part of Case 5, Session IV, Walsh Session, NANOS 2004
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Walsh Session Annual Meeting Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/Walsh/
Publisher North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management Copyright 2008. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
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