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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Lyme Carditis-A Case Series and Review of Literature.
J Cardiovasc Dev Dis
December 2024
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA.
Lyme carditis is an uncommon but potentially fatal manifestation of early disseminated Lyme disease. Timely diagnosis poses a clinical challenge due to the highly variable and non-specific symptomatology that can be easily overlooked, as well as the limited availability of specific and non-invasive diagnostic tests for assessing cardiac involvement. While cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is the standard imaging modality for diagnosing various etiologies of cardiomyopathy, its application in Lyme carditis remains understudied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOrbital inflammatory disease as a presenting feature of suspected Lyme neuroborreliosis: case report.
Orbit
November 2024
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Orbital inflammatory disease (OID) is an inflammatory condition of the orbital and periorbital region. This case reports suspected Lyme neuroborreliosis underlying an initial presentation of OID in a 37-year-old male. Myositis was confirmed by computed tomography (CT) imaging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeuroborreliosis Presenting as Urinary Retention: Case Report.
J Child Neurol
October 2024
Department of Pediatrics, Hospital de Braga, Braga, Portugal.
Lyme disease is a tick-borne infectious disease caused by the spirochete . Voiding dysfunction is a rare manifestation of neuroborreliosis with only a few cases reported. Here we describe a case of a 6-year-old male child with an acute urinary retention, paraparesis, and voiding difficulty in whom neuroborreliosis was diagnosed through serologic tests for antibodies, Western blot testing confirmation and intrathecal antibody synthesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnalysis of bb0556 Expression and Its Role During Borrelia burgdorferi Mammalian Infection.
Mol Microbiol
December 2024
Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.
In Borrelia burgdorferi, BB0556 was annotated as a conserved hypothetical protein. We herein investigated gene expression and the importance of this protein during infection. Our data support that bb0556 forms an operon with five other genes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLyme Neuroborreliosis in the Context of Dementia Syndromes.
Cureus
August 2024
Infectious Diseases, Sofiamed, Sofia, BGR.
Lyme disease (LD) can affect the skin, joints, heart, and nervous system as a multisystemic condition. The cause of the illness is the spirochete of the genus . These pathogens can affect the skin, joints, heart, and nervous system.
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