Acute Syphilitic Posterior Placoid Chorioretinitis in a Saudi Patient

Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol. 2020 Oct 30;27(3):191-194. doi: 10.4103/meajo.MEAJO_41_20. eCollection 2020 Jul-Sep.

Abstract

A 37-year-old otherwise healthy male presented with paracentral scotoma in his right eye for 1 day with a history of having unprotected sex with multiple partners. The patient was diagnosed to have acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis with multimodal imaging including spectral-domain optical coherence tomography and fundus fluorescein angiography. His condition improved after 2 weeks course of intravenous benzyl penicillin 1.2 g every 4 h in collaboration with infectious disease physician.

Keywords: Acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis; chorioretinitis; syphilis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Adult
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Chorioretinitis / diagnosis
  • Chorioretinitis / drug therapy
  • Chorioretinitis / microbiology*
  • Eye Infections, Bacterial / diagnosis
  • Eye Infections, Bacterial / drug therapy
  • Eye Infections, Bacterial / microbiology*
  • Fluorescein Angiography / methods
  • Humans
  • Infusions, Intravenous
  • Male
  • Multimodal Imaging
  • Penicillin G / therapeutic use
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Syphilis / diagnosis
  • Syphilis / drug therapy
  • Syphilis / microbiology*
  • Syphilis Serodiagnosis
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Penicillin G