Patients with pulmonary hypertension associated with congenital heart disease make up an increasing proportion of the total pulmonary hypertension population who bring with them added complexity ...

In 2018, there were more than 115,000 syphilis cases in the U.S. Texas topped the list for the most cases of congenital syphilis in the country with 367 cases or 92.2 per 100,000 live births.

Syracuse, NY -- There are nearly 30 times more cases of syphilis in Onondaga County than there were 20 years ago, according ...

But for this blog, I want to focus on one STD in a specific population: syphilis in newborns (known as congenital syphilis). The latest CDC published report on congenital syphilis (CS) shows a sharp ...

She had been born with complex congenital heart defects: parts of the right side of her heart hadn’t developed, and there were multiple holes in the organ. Her prognosis was grim — doctors ...

Methods: This is an ecological study that assessed the annual percent change (APC) of indicators related to gestational and congenital syphilis. Results: An APC of 11.15% was observed in the detection ...

It is a complication of the sexually transmitted disease syphilis. Neurosyphilis can develop at any stage of syphilis. Neurosyphilis occurs when the bacterium Treponema pallidum (T. pallidum ...

Of infants born to mothers with primary or secondary syphilis, up to 50% will be premature, stillborn, or die in the neonatal period; further, most of these children are born with congenital ...

an RDT can be used to increase access to testing or for prenatal screening to prevent congenital syphilis. In settings where non-treponemal tests, such as the RPR test, are available, it might be ...