Publications by authors named "Svitlana Nykytyuk"
Objectives: The objective of this article was to present the clinical peculiarity of the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (JHR) during antibiotic treatment of Lyme arthritis.
Material And Methods: Case study presentation as a basis for discussion, literature search of PubMed database particularly in the subject of combination of the JHR and Lyme borreliosis using the combination of words "Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction" and "Lyme borreliosis", "Lyme arthritis", "antibiotic treatment", "generalized inflammation", "cytokine production", "children", "increasing awareness"; discussion of the problem based on a clinical case and cited articles.
Results: The authors present a case of Lyme arthritis in a 13-year-old boy, as well as a discussion of clinical features of this complication of Lyme disease treatment as the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction.