Argyle Robertson Syndrome

Argil Robertson syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by the absence of the pupillary constriction reflex to light with a preserved pupillary constriction reflex during accommodation.

This syndrome is named after the Scottish ophthalmologist Douglas Argyll Robertson (1837-1909), who first described it in 1869. Argyle Robertson discovered that some patients with progressive paralysis lack the pupillary constriction reflex to light, while the pupillary constriction reflex for accommodation is preserved.

Argyle Robertson syndrome most often occurs in neurosyphilis, but can also be observed in other diseases affecting the oculomotor nerve and cerebral cortex. The diagnosis is made on the basis of a characteristic pattern of impaired pupil reflexes. Treatment depends on the cause of the syndrome.

Argyle Robertson syndrome

Argyll Robertson SYNDROME (D. Argyll Robertson, 883-1943), Scottish physician, **introduced the term “Argyll Robertson” to refer to cases of multiple and recurrent organ abscesses Meningococcal lesions of the abdominal septum and greater omentum.**

This is characterized by a high prevalence of multiple purulent inflammatory processes after a small-scale surgical intervention or with minor damage to the abdominal wall (see abdominal perforation).

All of these patients could have been saved by surgery, even if they were in shock or had damaged adjacent organs. However, the disease continued to develop for several weeks; the disease then affected the entire abdominal cavity, causing abscesses in the area of ​​the greater omentum, mesentery and abdominal press. One of the patients whose procedure appeared exceptionally clean was described by Robertson as Patient N, who underwent reconstruction of the anterior abdominal wall after the