[HTML][HTML] Infectious agents and Alzheimer's disease

T Piekut, M Hurła, N Banaszek, P Szejn… - Journal of Integrative …, 2022 - imrpress.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia worldwide. Individuals affected
by the disease gradually lose their capacity for abstract thinking, understanding …

Laboratory diagnostic tools for syphilis: current status and future prospects

Y Luo, Y Xie, Y Xiao - Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
With the increasing number of patients infected with syphilis in the past 20 years, early
diagnosis and early treatment are essential to decline syphilis prevalence. Owing to its …

Nontraumatic spinal cord injury: epidemiology, etiology and management

DM Molinares, DR Gater, S Daniel… - Journal of personalized …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The spinal cord is a conduit within the central nervous system (CNS) that provides ongoing
communication between the brain and the rest of the body, conveying complex sensory and …

Evaluating the global, regional, and national impact of syphilis: results from the global burden of disease study 2019

T Chen, B Wan, M Wang, S Lin, Y Wu, J Huang - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Syphilis is a global public health concern. This study aimed to assess the global and
regional burden of syphilis from 1990 to 2019. Disease burden was evaluated using …

Immune-mediated hypertrophic pachymeningitis and its mimickers: magnetic resonance imaging findings

TB Matias, RA Cordeiro, JA Duarte, VM de Jarry… - Academic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hypertrophic pachymeningitis (HP) is a rare and chronic inflammatory disorder presenting
as localized or diffuse thickening of the dura mater. It can be idiopathic or an unusual …

Diagnosis of neurosyphilis in Hiv-negative patients with syphilis: development, validation, and clinical utility of a suite of machine learning models

H Zou, Z Lu, W Weng, L Yang, L Yang, X Leng… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background The ability to accurately identify the absolute risk of neurosyphilis diagnosis for
patients with syphilis would allow preventative and therapeutic interventions to be delivered …

Secondary central nervous system demyelinating disorders in the elderly: A narrative review

C Bakirtzis, M Lima, SS De Lorenzo, A Artemiadis… - Healthcare, 2023 - mdpi.com
Secondary demyelinating diseases comprise a wide spectrum group of pathological
conditions and may either be attributed to a disorder primarily affecting the neurons or …

An updated review of recent advances in neurosyphilis

J Zhou, H Zhang, K Tang, R Liu, J Li - Frontiers in medicine, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Neurosyphilis is caused by Treponema pallidum invading the central nervous system, of
which the incidence is increasing worldwide. Due to its variable clinical manifestations …

Infections of the spine and spinal cord

S Bhattacharyya, MJ Bradshaw - CONTINUUM: Lifelong Learning …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
PURPOSE OF REVIEW Infections of the spine and spinal cord are associated with a high
risk of morbidity and mortality and, therefore, require prompt clinical recognition, efficient …

Neurosyphilis in China: a systematic review of cases from 2009–2021

FZ Du, HN Zhang, JJ Li, ZJ Zheng, X Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Considered the increased threaten of neurosyphilis in China, a review on cases reported in
the literature to describe the clinical epidemiological characteristics of neurosyphilis cases …