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Tabes dorsalis is a late consequence of neurosyphilis, characterized by the slow degeneration (specifically, demyelination) of the neural tracts primarily in the dorsal root ganglia of the spinal cord (nerve root). These patients have lancinating nerve root pain which is aggravated by coughing, and features of sensory ataxia with ocular ...
Tabes dorsalis, also called locomotor ataxia, describes a constellation of symptoms resulting from a degenerative process of the posterior columns of the spinal cord. Symptoms include pain, ataxic wide-based gait, paresthesias, bowel or bladder incontinence, loss of position and vibratory sense, cute episodic gastrointestinal pain, Charcot ...
Abadie's sign of tabes dorsalis is a medical sign of tabes dorsalis, a late consequence of neurosyphilis. It is elicited by compressing the Achilles tendon , which normally causes pain. A positive Abadie's sign is defined by the absence of pain.
General paresis, also known as general paralysis of the insane (GPI), paralytic dementia, or syphilitic paresis is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder, classified as an organic mental disorder, and is caused by late-stage syphilis and the chronic meningoencephalitis and cerebral atrophy that are associated with this late stage of the disease when left untreated.
Conditions affecting the dorsal columns of the spinal cord, such as tabes dorsalis (neurosyphilis), in which it was first described. [1] Conditions affecting the sensory nerves (sensory peripheral neuropathies), such as chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy . Friedreich's ataxia; Ménière's disease
Hutchinson's mask is a patient's sensation that the face is covered with a mask or a gauzy network like cobwebs. This medical sign is associated with tabes dorsalis [1] affecting the trigeminal nerve (fifth cranial nerve CN V).
Neurosyphilis at this point can cause several damages to the body, including tabes dorsalis. [11] When the nervous system is infected at this particular stage, the individual is at risk for meningeal syphilis, which in turn slowly shuts down the entire body.
Tabes dorsalis is characterized by gait instability, ... The symptoms of syphilis have become less severe over the 19th and 20th centuries, ...