Psychiatric Symptoms of Neurosyphilis: About Two Cases
Nafiaa H, Taleb K , Zabarra M , Sabir M, Toufiq J.
Although rare, neurosyphilis is one of the fatal complications of syphilis, which must be systematically evoked in the presence of a rapidly progressive dementia.
We report two cases of patients, a woman and a man, aged 67 and 65 respectively, whose diagnosis of neurosyphilis was purely fortuitous in the face of an isolated psychiatric picture, combining psychotic and dementia symptoms.
Practitioners should consider the diagnosis of neurosyphilis when faced with an inaugural psychiatric presentation, in order to improve prognosis and optimize management, which should be multidisciplinary.
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