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Dementia due to neurosyphilis

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Link to WHO Definition

Dementia due to neurosyphilis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/666731465

Dementia due to neurosyphilis, a disease of the central nervous system caused by an infection with the gram-negative bacteria Treponema pallidum, with brain involvement, and supportive clinical, imaging and laboratory features of the disease without another identifiable cause of cognitive dysfunction. There may be associated psychiatric symptoms. This type of dementia is considered to be treatable and, therefore, reversible (at least partially).