Stroke Secondary to Syphilis
Alternate Names : Syphilitic Stroke
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Symptoms & Signs
Prodromal (early) symptoms may precede the symptoms of stroke for about 1 to 4 weeks. These are:
- Headache
- Vertigo (abnormal sensation of movement)
- Behavioral changes
- Irritability
Symptoms of stroke include:
- Weakness or the total inability to move a body part
- Numbness, tingling or other abnormal sensations
- Decreased or lost vision, partial or temporary
- Language difficulties (aphasia)
- Inability to recognize or identify sensory stimuli (agnosia)
- Loss of memory
- Vertigo (abnormal sensation of movement)
- Loss of coordination
- Swallowing difficulties
- Personality changes
- Mood and emotion changes
- Urinary incontinence (lack of control over bladder)
- Lack of control over the bowels
- Consciousness changes
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