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Missed opportunities in preventing mother-to-child transmission of syphilis in the indigenous population in central Brazil

Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil, 2023
Objectives: to estimate the detection rate of syphilis in pregnant women, the occurrence of congenital syphilis, and the rate of mother-to-child transmission of syphilis, in addition to analyzing missed opportunities in the prevention of mother-to-child ...
Renata Palópolí Pícoli, Luiza Helena de Oliveira Cazola   +1 more
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Contemporary Clinical Management of Otosyphilis for Practicing Otolaryngologists—A Scoping Review

The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.
Otosyphilis has reemerged alongside increasing syphilis rates, highlighting the need for early recognition to prevent severe audiovestibular complications. A scoping review and retrospective case series indicate that most patients present with hearing loss, tinnitus, or vertigo and typically respond to penicillin‐based treatment.
Corinne A. Pittman, Hudson Liu, Sandeep Kowkuntla, Erica Choe, Matthew J. Copeland, Michael Hoa, Selena Briggs, H. Jeffrey Kim   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gestational and congenital syphilis in a municipality in Brazil between 2014 and 2018

DST, 2019
Introduction: Syphilis is an infectious disease that can cause congenital syphilis when it affects pregnant women, resulting in malformation of the fetus, miscarriage, or fetal death.
Patricia Simon da Silva, Cassandra Severo Amaral Vieira, Ludmila Mourão Xavier Gomes, Thiago Luis de Andrade Barbosa   +3 more
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Parental counselling and autopsy results: A retrospective diagnostic cohort study at a multidisciplinary fetal neurology clinic

Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim To examine the accuracy of prenatal counselling at a multidisciplinary fetal neurology clinic (FNC) that led to termination of pregnancy (TOP), to improve the quality of future consultations. Method This retrospective diagnostic cohort study compared the imaging (neurosonography and intrauterine magnetic resonance imaging) of fetuses ...
Avi Shariv, Michal Gafner, Zvi Leibovitz, Letizia Schreiber, Dvora Kidron, Ayala Arad, Efrat Hadi, Stephanie Libzon, Liat Ben Sira, Maya Goldschmidt Manor, Dorit Lev, Tally Lerman‐Sagie, Liat Gindes   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Congenital syphilis re-emergence in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Canada Communicable Disease Report, 2022
Background: Infectious syphilis rates have been increasing in Winnipeg, Manitoba among individuals during their childbearing years. Untreated or inadequately treated prenatal infection often results in congenital syphilis, with devastating consequences ...
Peter Benoit, Lana Tennenhouse, Alicia Lapple, Gillian Hill-Carroll, Souradet Shaw, Jared Bullard, Pierre Plourde   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adverse social determinats and risk for congenital anomalies [PDF]

, 2014
INTRODUCCIÓN: Diferentes trabajos han relacionando condiciones sociales adversas a nivel familiar y regional con resultados perinatales (mortalidad neonatal, bajo peso y prematuridad); sin embargo, pocos estudiaron el efecto de la pobreza sobre anomalías
Campaña, Hebe, Comas, Belén, Gili, Juan Antonio, Gimenez, Lucas Gabriel, López Camelo, Jorge Santiago, Pawluk, Mariela Soledad, Poletta, Fernando Adrián, Scala, Sandra C., Villalba, María Inés   +8 more
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Porphyromonas gingivalis GroEL accelerates abdominal aortic aneurysm formation by matrix metalloproteinase‐2 SUMOylation in vascular smooth muscle cells: A novel finding for the activation of MMP‐2

Molecular Oral Microbiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Infection is a known cause of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), and matrix metalloproteases‐2 (MMP‐2) secreted by vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) plays a key role in the structural disruption of the middle layer of the arteries during AAA progression.
Yi‐Wen Lin, Feng‐Yen Lin, Ze‐Hao Lai, Chien‐Sung Tsai, Yi‐Ting Tsai, Yen‐Sung Huang, Chen‐Wei Liu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic and programmatic aspects of congenital syphilis prevention

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004
A review of the economic and programmatic aspects of congenital syphilis was conducted and recommendations made for improvement of its prevention. Congenital syphilis is a preventable disease and the tools to prevent it have been available for decades ...
Schmid George
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Syphilis in pregnancy and congenital syphilis in Amazonas State, Brazil: an evaluation using database linkage

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2014
This study analyzes notification of syphilis in pregnancy and congenital syphilis in Amazo- nas State, Brazil, from 2007 to 2009 and verifies underreporting in databases in the National Information System on Diseases of Notification (SINAN) and the ...
Claudia Marques de Oliveira Soeiro, Angélica Espinosa Miranda, Valeria Saraceni, Marcelo Cordeiro dos Santos, Sinesio Talhari, Luiz Carlos de Lima Ferreira   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investment case for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of syphilis: promoting better maternal and child health and stronger health systems [PDF]

, 2012
Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of syphilis (commonly referred to as “congenital syphilis”) is relatively simple to eliminate and it is inexpensive to detect and treat, making it a possible “easy win” in terms of cost, feasibility and speed of scale ...
), Gomez, G, Hanson, K, Peeling, R, Vickerman, P, WHO ( inc. Cousens, S   +5 more
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