Syphilitic perioptic neuritis in an HIV-seropositive patient: A case report and VEP study

W. van Paesschen; L. H. Mylin; M. Tagliati; J. Sherman; I. Bodis-Wollner

doi:10.3109/01658109509044614

Syphilitic perioptic neuritis in an HIV-seropositive patient: A case report and VEP study

W. van Paesschen, L. H. Mylin, M. Tagliati, J. Sherman, I. Bodis-Wollner

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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Abstract

The authors report an HIV-seropositive patient with syphilitic perioptic neuritis as an initial and isolated manifestation of neurosyphilis. Cerebrospinal fluid was within normal limits. Visual evoked potentials (VEP's) showed a marked delay to medium spatial frequency grating stimuli (4.6 cycles per degree) but not to a coarse stimulus (2.3 cycles per degree) suggesting selective vulnerability of optic nerve fibers. The VEP normalized after treatment corresponding with improvement of the perioptic neuritis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	271-275
Number of pages	5
Journal	Neuro-Ophthalmology
Volume	15
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3109/01658109509044614
State	Published - 1995

Keywords

HIV
Parallel visual pathways
Perioptic neurits
Syphilis
Visual evoked potentials

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Syphilitic perioptic neuritis in an HIV-seropositive patient: A case report and VEP study

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