title: Survival with hypopituitarism from congenital syphilis.
abstract: Congenital syphilis continues to occur despite the advances in testing of pregnant women in many countries and the availability of penicillin since 1943. This is a report of a child with multiple systemic manifestations of congenital syphilis. This is one of the few cases of survival with pituitary involvement from congenital syphilis and the first noted case in which diabetes insipidus developed. Institution of routine testing in all countries might have prevented the severe manifestations of syphilis seen in this child.
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA. noltd@chplink.chp.edu
authors.forename: Dawn
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nolt
authors.forename: Rola
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Saad
authors.forename: Amjad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kouatli
authors.forename: Michael L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Moritz
authors.forename: Ram K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Menon
authors.forename: Marian G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Michaels
mesh_terms: D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D006801:Humans; D007018:Hypopituitarism / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D013590:Syphilis, Congenital / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy