Table 1.
Characteristics of the ocular syphilis studies among HIV-infected patients
| First author | Years (or duration) | Number of patients |
Location | Concurrent new HIV diagnosis |
Receiving HAART before syphilis |
Median follow-up (months) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case reports | 1984–2009 | 13 | Multiple centres | 3/8 | 3/7 | NR |
| Balba29 | 1997–2002 | 3 | Single centre, Washington DC, USA | NR | 3/3 | NR |
| Li32 | 1989–2009 | 12 | Two centres—Seattle, USA and Boston USA | 4/12 | 5/12 | 45 |
| Doris30 | 2004 | 2 | Single centre, Manchester, UK | NR | NR | NR |
| McCall26 | 2004 | 2 | Single centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands | 0/2 | 1/2 | NR |
| Parc33 | 2001–4 | 8 | Single centre, Paris, France | 0/8 | NR | 5* |
| Tran36 | 2001–3 | 12 | Single centre, Paris, France | 3/12 | NR | 7.25 |
| Kunkel22 | 1998–2006 | 11 | Single centre, Berlin, Germany | 7/11 | 2/11 | NR |
| Browning19 | 14 years | 5 | Single centre, Charlotte, USA | 3/5 | NR | 8 |
| Shalaby35 | 1983–95 | 13 | Single centre, Baltimore, USA | NR | NA | NR |
| Villanueva37 | 1993–6 | 3 | Single centre, Detroit, USA | NR | NA | 12 |
| Kuo31 | Before 1997 | 3 | Single centre, Los Angeles, USA | 2/3 | NA | NR |
| Levy9 | Before 1989 | 2 | Single centre, Baltimore, US | 2/2 | NA | NR |
| McLeish20 | 1985–8 | 9 | Two centres, Miami and Iowa City, USA | 4/9 | NA | NR |
| Passo34 | 1985 | 3 | Single centre, Baltimore, USA | 3/3 | NA | NR |
*
All patients had 1 month follow-up, and only four patients were followed up for longer periods. Among those four patients, the median follow-up time was 5 months.
HAART, highly active antiretroviral treatment; NA, not applicable; NR, not reported.