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==Overview== | |||
Neurosyphilis must be differentiated from other diseases that cause abnormal [[gait]], [[Blindness]], [[confusion]] and [[depression]], such as [[multiple sclerosis]], [[Brain tumour]]<nowiki/>s, [[Wernicke's encephalopathy|Wernicke’s encephalopathy]], [[CNS abscess]], [[electrolyte disturbance]], [[Subdural empyema]], [[Subarachnoid hemorrhage|subarachnoid hemorrhage]], [[Stroke|brain stroke]], [[Conversion disorder]] and [[Drug toxicity]]. | |||
==Differentiating X from other Diseases== | |||
* Neuroyphilis has an extensive differential diagnosis. | |||
*Neurosyphilis must be differentiated from other diseases that cause abnormal [[gait]], [[Blindness]], [[confusion]] and [[depression]], such as [[multiple sclerosis]], [[Brain tumour]]<nowiki/>s, [[Wernicke's encephalopathy|Wernicke’s encephalopathy]], [[CNS abscess]], [[electrolyte disturbance]], [[Subdural empyema]], [[Subarachnoid hemorrhage|subarachnoid hemorrhage]], [[Stroke|brain stroke]], [[Conversion disorder]] and [[Drug toxicity]].<nowiki/><nowiki/><ref name="pmid1278192" /><ref name="pmid3883130" /><ref name="pmid22482824" /><ref name="pmid24365430" /><ref name="pmid22421697" /><ref name="pmid21807345" /><ref name="pmid21371327" /><ref name="pmid14585453" /><ref name="pmid1198628" /><ref name="pmid22605909">{{cite journal| author=Goldenberg MM| title=Multiple sclerosis review. | journal=P T | year= 2012 | volume= 37 | issue= 3 | pages= 175-84 | pmid=22605909 | doi= | pmc=3351877 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=22605909 }} </ref> | |||
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! rowspan="2" |<small>Diseases</small> | ! rowspan="2" |<small>Diseases</small> | ||
! colspan="4" |<small>Diagnostic tests</small> | ! colspan="4" |<small>Diagnostic tests</small> | ||
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|style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" | [[Brain tumour]]<ref name="pmid1278192">Soffer D (1976) [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=1278192 Brain tumors simulating purulent meningitis.] ''Eur Neurol'' 14 (3):192-7. PMID: [http://pubmed.gov/1278192 1278192]</ref><ref name="pmid3883130" /> | | style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Neurosyphilis]]<ref name="pmid22482824">{{cite journal| author=Liu LL, Zheng WH, Tong ML, Liu GL, Zhang HL, Fu ZG et al.| title=Ischemic stroke as a primary symptom of neurosyphilis among HIV-negative emergency patients. | journal=J Neurol Sci | year= 2012 | volume= 317 | issue= 1-2 | pages= 35-9 | pmid=22482824 | doi=10.1016/j.jns.2012.03.003 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=22482824 }} </ref><ref name="pmid24365430">{{cite journal |vauthors=Berger JR, Dean D |title=Neurosyphilis |journal=Handb Clin Neurol |volume=121 |issue= |pages=1461–72 |year=2014 |pmid=24365430 |doi=10.1016/B978-0-7020-4088-7.00098-5 |url=}}</ref> | ||
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|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center"|✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px text-align:center" |Cancer cells<ref name="pmid21371327">{{cite journal| author=Weston CL, Glantz MJ, Connor JR| title=Detection of cancer cells in the cerebrospinal fluid: current methods and future directions. | journal=Fluids Barriers CNS | year= 2011 | volume= 8 | issue= 1 | pages= 14 | pmid=21371327 | doi=10.1186/2045-8118-8-14 | pmc=3059292 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=21371327 }}</ref> | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |'''↑''' [[Leukocytes]] and [[protein]] | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |MRI | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
* CSF [[VDRL]]-specifc | |||
* CSF FTA-Ab -sensitive<ref name="pmid22421697">{{cite journal| author=Ho EL, Marra CM| title=Treponemal tests for neurosyphilis--less accurate than what we thought? | journal=Sex Transm Dis | year= 2012 | volume= 39 | issue= 4 | pages= 298-9 | pmid=22421697 | doi=10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31824ee574 | pmc=3746559 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=22421697 }}</ref> | |||
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* Unprotected sexual intercourse, [[STI]]<nowiki/>s | |||
* History of multiple sexual partners. | |||
* History of [[genital ulcer]] ([[chancre]]) | |||
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* [[Blindness]] | |||
* [[confusion]], | |||
* [[depression|epression]], | |||
* Abnormal [[gait]] | |||
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|[[Multiple sclerosis]] | |||
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|[[Oligoclonal band|Oligoclonal bands of IgG]] on [[electrophoresis]] of [[cerebrospinal fluid]] | |||
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* History of [[fatigue]] | |||
* Mood problems | |||
* [[Spasticity]] | |||
* [[Bowel]] and [[bladder]] dysfunction | |||
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*[[Vision problems]] | |||
*[[Balance disorder|Balance problems]] | |||
*[[Dizziness]] | |||
*Areas of [[demyelination]] in [[CNS]] [[MRI]] | |||
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| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" | [[Brain tumour]]<ref name="pmid1278192">Soffer D (1976) [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=1278192 Brain tumors simulating purulent meningitis.] ''Eur Neurol'' 14 (3):192-7. PMID: [http://pubmed.gov/1278192 1278192]</ref><ref name="pmid3883130" /> | |||
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| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px text-align:center" |Cancer cells<ref name="pmid21371327">{{cite journal| author=Weston CL, Glantz MJ, Connor JR| title=Detection of cancer cells in the cerebrospinal fluid: current methods and future directions. | journal=Fluids Barriers CNS | year= 2011 | volume= 8 | issue= 1 | pages= 14 | pmid=21371327 | doi=10.1186/2045-8118-8-14 | pmc=3059292 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=21371327 }}</ref> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |MRI | |||
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|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |[[Cachexia]] | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
* [[Cachexia]] | |||
* Gradual progression of symptoms | |||
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| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |Wernicke’s encephalopathy | |||
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| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Normal | |||
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| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |History of alcohal abuse | |||
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* [[Ophthalmoplegia]] | |||
* [[confusion]] | |||
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| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[CNS abscess]] | |||
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* '''↑''' [[leukocytes]] >100,000/ul | |||
* '''↓''' [[glucose]] and '''↑''' protien | |||
* '''↑''' red blood cells | |||
* [[lactic acid]] >500mg | |||
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* Contrast enhanced MRI is more sensitive and specific | |||
* [[Histopathological]] examination of brain tissue | |||
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* History of [[drug abuse]] | |||
* [[endocarditis]] | |||
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* High grade [[fever]] | |||
* F[[fatigue|atigue]] | |||
* N[[Nausea and vomiting|ausea]] | |||
* [[vomiting]] | |||
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| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Electrolyte disturbance]] | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |'''↓''' or '''↑''' | |||
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| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Depends on the cause | |||
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* [[Confusion]] | |||
* S[[Seizure|eizures]] | |||
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|style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Delirium tremens]] | | style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Subdural empyema]] | ||
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| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Clinical assesment and [[MRI]] | |||
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| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |History of relapses and remissions | |||
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* Blurry vision | |||
* [[urinary incontinence]] | |||
* F[[fatigue|atigue]] | |||
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| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Delirium tremens]] | |||
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| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Clinical diagnosis | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Clinical diagnosis | ||
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|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |[[Alcohol]] intake | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |[[Tachycardia]] | * [[Alcohol]] intake | ||
* Sudden withdraw or reduction in consumption | |||
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* [[Tachycardia]] | |||
* [[diaphoresis]] | |||
* [[hypertension]] | |||
* [[tremors]], | |||
* [[mydriasis]] | |||
* [[positional nystagmus|Positional Nystagmus]], | |||
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|style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" | [[Subarachnoid hemorrhage|Subarachnoid hemorrhage]]<ref name="pmid14585453">Yeh ST, Lee WJ, Lin HJ, Chen CY, Te AL, Lin HJ (2003) [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=14585453 Nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage secondary to tuberculous meningitis: report of two cases.] ''J Emerg Med'' 25 (3):265-70. PMID: [http://pubmed.gov/14585453 14585453]</ref> | | style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" | [[Subarachnoid hemorrhage|Subarachnoid hemorrhage]]<ref name="pmid14585453">Yeh ST, Lee WJ, Lin HJ, Chen CY, Te AL, Lin HJ (2003) [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=14585453 Nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage secondary to tuberculous meningitis: report of two cases.] ''J Emerg Med'' 25 (3):265-70. PMID: [http://pubmed.gov/14585453 14585453]</ref> | ||
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|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Xanthochromia<ref name="pmid1198628">{{cite journal| author=Lee MC, Heaney LM, Jacobson RL, Klassen AC| title=Cerebrospinal fluid in cerebral hemorrhage and infarction. | journal=Stroke | year= 1975 | volume= 6 | issue= 6 | pages= 638-41 | pmid=1198628 | doi= | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=1198628 }}</ref> | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Xanthochromia<ref name="pmid1198628">{{cite journal| author=Lee MC, Heaney LM, Jacobson RL, Klassen AC| title=Cerebrospinal fluid in cerebral hemorrhage and infarction. | journal=Stroke | year= 1975 | volume= 6 | issue= 6 | pages= 638-41 | pmid=1198628 | doi= | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=1198628 }}</ref> | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |CT scan without contrast<ref name="pmid21694755">{{cite journal| author=Birenbaum D, Bancroft LW, Felsberg GJ| title=Imaging in acute stroke. | journal=West J Emerg Med | year= 2011 | volume= 12 | issue= 1 | pages= 67-76 | pmid=21694755 | doi= | pmc=3088377 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=21694755 }}</ref><ref name="pmid21807345">{{cite journal| author=DeLaPaz RL, Wippold FJ, Cornelius RS, Amin-Hanjani S, Angtuaco EJ, Broderick DF et al.| title=ACR Appropriateness Criteria® on cerebrovascular disease. | journal=J Am Coll Radiol | year= 2011 | volume= 8 | issue= 8 | pages= 532-8 | pmid=21807345 | doi=10.1016/j.jacr.2011.05.010 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=21807345 }}</ref> | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |CT scan without contrast<ref name="pmid21694755">{{cite journal| author=Birenbaum D, Bancroft LW, Felsberg GJ| title=Imaging in acute stroke. | journal=West J Emerg Med | year= 2011 | volume= 12 | issue= 1 | pages= 67-76 | pmid=21694755 | doi= | pmc=3088377 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=21694755 }}</ref><ref name="pmid21807345">{{cite journal| author=DeLaPaz RL, Wippold FJ, Cornelius RS, Amin-Hanjani S, Angtuaco EJ, Broderick DF et al.| title=ACR Appropriateness Criteria® on cerebrovascular disease. | journal=J Am Coll Radiol | year= 2011 | volume= 8 | issue= 8 | pages= 532-8 | pmid=21807345 | doi=10.1016/j.jacr.2011.05.010 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=21807345 }}</ref> | ||
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|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Trauma/fall | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Trauma/fall | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |[[Confusion]] | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
* [[Confusion]] | |||
* [[dizziness]] | |||
* [[Nausea and vomiting|Nausea]] | |||
* [[Nausea and vomiting|Vomiting]] | |||
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|style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" | [[Stroke]] | | style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" | [[Stroke]] | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center"| | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center"|✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center"| Normal | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | Normal | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center"| CT scan without contrast | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | CT scan without contrast | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center"| | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center"|✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center"|✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center"| | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center"|✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center"|✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center"| | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center"|✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center"|TIAs, [[hypertension]], [[diabetes mellitus]] | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |TIAs, [[hypertension]], [[diabetes mellitus]] | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center"|Speech difficulty | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | | ||
* Speech difficulty | |||
* Gait abnormality | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Viral encephalitis]] | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | |||
* Increased [[RBC]]S or xanthochromia | |||
* [[Mononuclear cells|Mononuclear]] [[lymphocytosis]] | |||
* High protein content | |||
* Normal [[glucose]] | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Clinical assesment | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;text-align:center" |✔ | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | |||
|style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Viral encephalitis]] | |||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | |||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | |||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Increased [[RBC]]S or xanthochromia | |||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Clinical assesment | |||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | |||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | |||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;text-align:center" |✔ | |||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | ✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | ✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | ||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Tick bite | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Extreme lethargy | * Tick bite | ||
* Mosquito bite | |||
* Viral prodome for several days | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | |||
* Extreme lethargy | |||
* Rash | |||
* [[hepatosplenomegaly]] | |||
* [[lymphadenopathy]] | |||
* [[behavioural]] changes | |||
|- | |- | ||
|style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Herpes simplex encephalitis]] | | style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Herpes simplex encephalitis]] | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Clinical assesment | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Clinical assesment | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |History of [[hypertension]] | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |History of [[hypertension]] | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |[[Delirium]] | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
* [[Delirium]] | |||
* Cortical [[blindness]] | |||
* [[cerebral edema]] | |||
* [[seizure]] | |||
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|style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" | | | style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Drug toxicity]] | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |[[ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
* [[Lithium]] | |||
* Sedatives | |||
* [[phenytoin]] | |||
* [[carbamazepine]] | |||
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|style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[ | | style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Conversion disorder]] | ||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Diagnosis of exclusion | |||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Diagnosis of exclusion | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | ||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;text-align:center" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;text-align:center" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;text-align:center" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;text-align:center" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | ✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | ✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |✔ | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
|style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |[[Tremor|Tremors]] | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
* [[Tremor|Tremors]] | |||
* [[blindness]] | |||
* Difficulty [[swallowing]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Febrile convulsion]] | | style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Febrile convulsion]] | ||
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| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Family history of [[febrile]] [[seizures]] | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
* Family history of [[febrile]] [[seizures]] | |||
* Family history of [[gastroenteritis]] | |||
* Family history of [[viral]] illness or | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Age > 1 month, | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Age > 1 month, | ||
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| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Hypoglycemia]] | | style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Hypoglycemia]] | ||
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| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Serum | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |Serum [[Glucose-1-phosphate adenylyltransferase|glucose]] | ||
[[HbA1c]] | [[HbA1c]] | ||
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| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |History of [[Diabetes mellitus|diabetes]] | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |History of [[Diabetes mellitus|diabetes]] | ||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" |[[Palpitation|Palpitations]] | | style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px;" | | ||
* [[Palpitation|Palpitations]] | |||
* [[sweating]] | |||
* [[dizziness]] | |||
* Low serum [[glucose]] | |||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Mohamadmostafa Jahansouz M.D.[2]Tarek Nafee, M.D. [3]
Overview
Neurosyphilis must be differentiated from other diseases that cause abnormal gait, Blindness, confusion and depression, such as multiple sclerosis, Brain tumours, Wernicke’s encephalopathy, CNS abscess, electrolyte disturbance, Subdural empyema, subarachnoid hemorrhage, brain stroke, Conversion disorder and Drug toxicity.
Differentiating X from other Diseases
- Neuroyphilis has an extensive differential diagnosis.
- Neurosyphilis must be differentiated from other diseases that cause abnormal gait, Blindness, confusion and depression, such as multiple sclerosis, Brain tumours, Wernicke’s encephalopathy, CNS abscess, electrolyte disturbance, Subdural empyema, subarachnoid hemorrhage, brain stroke, Conversion disorder and Drug toxicity.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
Diseases | Diagnostic tests | Physical Examination | Symptoms | Past medical history | Other Findings | |||||||||
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Na+, K+, Ca2+ | CT /MRI | CSF Findings | Gold standard test | Neck stiffness | Motor or Sensory deficit | Papilledema | Bulging fontanelle | Cranial nerves | Headache | Fever | Altered mental status | |||
Neurosyphilis[3][4] | ✔ | ↑ Leukocytes and protein |
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Multiple sclerosis | Oligoclonal bands of IgG on electrophoresis of cerebrospinal fluid | MRI | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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Brain tumour[1][2] | ✔ | Cancer cells[7] | MRI | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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Wernicke’s encephalopathy | Normal | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | History of alcohal abuse | |||||||||
CNS abscess | ✔ |
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Electrolyte disturbance | ↓ or ↑ | Depends on the cause | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||||||
Subdural empyema | ✔ | Clinical assesment and MRI | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | History of relapses and remissions |
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Delirium tremens | ✔ | Clinical diagnosis | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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Subarachnoid hemorrhage[8] | ✔ | Xanthochromia[9] | CT scan without contrast[11][6] | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Trauma/fall | ||
Stroke | ✔ | Normal | CT scan without contrast | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | TIAs, hypertension, diabetes mellitus |
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Viral encephalitis | ✔ |
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Clinical assesment | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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Herpes simplex encephalitis | ✔ | Clinical assesment | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | History of hypertension |
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Drug toxicity | ✔ | ✔ |
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Conversion disorder | Diagnosis of exclusion | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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Febrile convulsion | Not performed in first simple febrile seizures | Clinical diagnosis and EEG | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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Hypoglycemia | ↓ or ↑ | Serum glucose | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | History of diabetes |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Soffer D (1976) Brain tumors simulating purulent meningitis. Eur Neurol 14 (3):192-7. PMID: 1278192
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Liu LL, Zheng WH, Tong ML, Liu GL, Zhang HL, Fu ZG; et al. (2012). "Ischemic stroke as a primary symptom of neurosyphilis among HIV-negative emergency patients". J Neurol Sci. 317 (1–2): 35–9. doi:10.1016/j.jns.2012.03.003. PMID 22482824.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Berger JR, Dean D (2014). "Neurosyphilis". Handb Clin Neurol. 121: 1461–72. doi:10.1016/B978-0-7020-4088-7.00098-5. PMID 24365430.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ho EL, Marra CM (2012). "Treponemal tests for neurosyphilis--less accurate than what we thought?". Sex Transm Dis. 39 (4): 298–9. doi:10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31824ee574. PMC 3746559. PMID 22421697.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 DeLaPaz RL, Wippold FJ, Cornelius RS, Amin-Hanjani S, Angtuaco EJ, Broderick DF; et al. (2011). "ACR Appropriateness Criteria® on cerebrovascular disease". J Am Coll Radiol. 8 (8): 532–8. doi:10.1016/j.jacr.2011.05.010. PMID 21807345.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Weston CL, Glantz MJ, Connor JR (2011). "Detection of cancer cells in the cerebrospinal fluid: current methods and future directions". Fluids Barriers CNS. 8 (1): 14. doi:10.1186/2045-8118-8-14. PMC 3059292. PMID 21371327.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Yeh ST, Lee WJ, Lin HJ, Chen CY, Te AL, Lin HJ (2003) Nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage secondary to tuberculous meningitis: report of two cases. J Emerg Med 25 (3):265-70. PMID: 14585453
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Lee MC, Heaney LM, Jacobson RL, Klassen AC (1975). "Cerebrospinal fluid in cerebral hemorrhage and infarction". Stroke. 6 (6): 638–41. PMID 1198628.
- ↑ Goldenberg MM (2012). "Multiple sclerosis review". P T. 37 (3): 175–84. PMC 3351877. PMID 22605909.
- ↑ Birenbaum D, Bancroft LW, Felsberg GJ (2011). "Imaging in acute stroke". West J Emerg Med. 12 (1): 67–76. PMC 3088377. PMID 21694755.