Plasma Exchange for Lyme Neuroborreliosis delayed diagnosis: A case report.

Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) is a rare infectious disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes and responsible for a variety of neurological manifestations. The most common manifestations of LNB in children are cranial nerve involvement, especially facial nerve palsy often accompanied by lymphocytic meningitis. In this article, we present a case of a 4-year-old boy presented to our emergency department with abdominal pain evolving for a week and symmetrical ascending progression of weakness responsible for severe respiratory failure.