NERVOUS SYSTEM PATHOLOGY OF CHILDREN BORN BY WOMEN INFECTED WITH TREPONEMA PALLIDUM

Abstract

At present, the nervous system diseases hold leading positions in the structure of the diseases, which result in children's disability. It turned out, that 60-70% of them are associated with the perinatal life. Over the last decades these rates have ensued from the incidence rate of syphilis whose increase among the women of childbearing age has entailed the incidence rate of the syphilis with the nervous system involvement. This paper presents the correlations of features of the clinical presentations of the nervous system pathology at the stage of early neonatal adaptation and laboratory neuroimaging and neurophysiologi-cal examinations carried out to 388 children, as well as the autopsy examination results of fetuses, still-born and deceased children having been born by the women infected with the syphilis. The authors compare the findings with the analogous examinations of 588 children who have been delivered by the women having other sexually transmitted infections.