Presents comprehensive coverage of valvular heart disease to provide you with a complete reference and one-stop shop for this specialty in cardiac medicine. [books.google.com]

Snapshot A 40-year-old woman presents to her primary care physician for a wellness exam. She currently does not have any acute concerns and reports to feeling well. [medbullets.com]

Past history of rheumatic fever may be present 3. Other valves may be affected 4. Usually there is no diastolic thrill 6. Murmur is of blowing character 7. It is best heard on 3 rd left intercostals space 8. Peripheral signs of AR are present. [notes.medicosnotes.com]

Thirty-five aneurysms were present in 59 %, chiefly involving the aorta. We found syphilitic aortitis to be a common cause of aortitis at autopsy. [scienceopen.com]

So common was syphilis in days gone by, all physicians were attuned to its myriad clinical presentations. [bjcardio.co.uk]

[…] of HIV in Industrialized and Middle Income CountriesŠAdults Adolescents and Pediatric 1310 Chapter 115 Guidelines for the Treatment of HIV and AIDS in ResourceLimited Countries 1328 Chapter 116 Guidelines for Prevention of Perinatal HIV Infection 1345 [books.google.com]

Treatment of Syphilis FIGURE 1. Recommended approach to the treatment of syphilis. [aafp.org]

This would provide confirmation of adequate treatment. [medicalnewstoday.com]

[…] in early stages of infection than in those who had late treatment In cardiovascular syphilis, the vasa vasorum of the ascending aorta shows dense inflammation mainly confined to the adventitia and the media This leads to infiltration and replacement [pathologyoutlines.com]

Parenteral (injection) penicillin is the universal treatment choice for all stages of syphilis. Early detection and treatment is a key for recovery from infection and reducing complications. [tandurust.com]

[…] depends on age, sex, occupation, stage of infection, site and extent of lesion, nature of lesion (progressive or stationary), response to treatment, cardiac efficiency, presence of complications The prognosis is better in patients with uncomplicated [pathologyoutlines.com]

Treatment and prognosis High-dose antibiotics and resection of enlarging aneurysm. History and etymology The term "lues" is an old name for syphilis, derived from Latin lues for "filth". [radiopaedia.org]

Presence of congestive heart failure affects the prognosis adversely. [6] Symptoms of aortic aneurysm Inflammation of the aortic wall leads to aortitis which later progresses to obliterative endarteritis of the vasa vasorum. [explainmedicine.com]

What is the prognosis? Patients with infectious syphilis should abstain from sexual activity until rendered noninfectious by antibiotic therapy. Talk openly with your partner about STDs, HIV, and hepatitis B infection, and the use of contraception. [healthcentral.com]

Syphilis Prognosis Primary, secondary, and early latent syphilis can be treated successfully with antibiotics. Late latency (more than 1 year after the secondary stage) is difficult to treat. [healthcommunities.com]

cardiovascular; syphilitic (manifestation), disease (or disorder); heart, syphilitic (etiology), disease (or disorder); heart, syphilitic (manifestation), syphilis; cardiovascular (etiology), syphilis; cardiovascular (manifestation), Cardiovascular [fpnotebook.com]

Table 2 Mitral valve and aortic valve disease Table 3 Etiology of tricuspid and pulmonic valve disease Multivalvular Abnormalities and Current Common Etiologies We have presented many different etiologies of VHD. [karger.com]

Body leanness and hypertension are additional etiological factors for senile calcific aortic stenosis. Severe calcification of a congenital bicuspid aortic valve continues to be an important cause of aortic stenosis in the elderly. [journals.lww.com]

The rarity of this a etiology makes the diagnosis difficult, mainly because syphilis testing is not routinely used. [humpath.com]

Even in the urbanized region of Soweto where there is a high prevalence of vascular risk factors, non-ischemic etiologies are still the dominant cause of heart failure [8], [9]. [journals.plos.org]

Recent epidemiologic reports show an increase in reported cases related to the HIV infection. The rarity of this a etiology makes the diagnosis difficult, mainly because syphilis testing is not routinely used. [humpath.com]

Journal Journal ID (nlm-ta): Pan Afr Med J Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Pan Afr Med J Journal ID (publisher-id): PAMJ Title: The Pan African Medical Journal Publisher: The African Field Epidemiology Network ISSN (Electronic): 1937-8688 Publication date (Electronic [scienceopen.com]

The sexually transmitted bug that sullied Christopher Columbus’ journey either to the New World or his return back to the Old – we’re still debating this grand chicken-or-egg epidemiological mystery – has deranged the minds of dictators and kings, was [blogs.discovermagazine.com]

When good quality epidemiological studies were undertaken it was clear that those most at risk from early death from CHD (and almost all other causes of death) were the long-term unemployed. [drdavidgrimes.com]

Recent epidemiologic studies in adults suggested that the prevalence of VHD increases from 8 ]. [karger.com]

Definition / general Due to spirochete, Treponema pallidum Rare in developed and developing countries Male:female is 2:1 to 4:1 Affects aortic valve and ascending aorta Pathophysiology Treponema pallida reach cardiovascular system a short time after initial [pathologyoutlines.com]

VHD Etiology The major pathophysiologic entities associated with VHD are shown in table 1. [karger.com]

Special attention is given to the prevention and treatment of these diseases found in developing countries as well as the latest findings about new antimicrobial agents, gram-negative infections and their management, and recommendations for immunization [books.google.com]

Encyclopedia) RPR test (Medical Encyclopedia) Syphilis (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Syphilis - primary (Medical Encyclopedia) Syphilis and MSM (Men Who Have Sex with Men) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) VDRL test (Medical [icdlist.com]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Syphilis Fact Sheet. Available online at http://www.cdc.gov/std/Syphilis/STDFact-Syphilis.htm. Accessed June 2009. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. STD surveillance, 2007. [labtestsonline.org]

Prevention Preventive measures to decrease the risk of syphilis, include: abstaining from sex long-term mutual monogamy with an uninfected partner condom use, although these protect only against genital sores and not those on the body. [medicalnewstoday.com]