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Who is more likely to fail Lyme disease treatment?
In a recent article entitled “Risk Factors and Outcomes of Treatment Delays in Lyme Disease: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study,” Hirsch and colleagues described which Lyme disease patients were more likely to fail treatment.¹
Young child with a “false brain tumor” due to Lyme disease
I will be discussing a case involving a 9-year-old boy with a pseudotumor cerebri due to Lyme disease
This case was described by Ezequiel and colleagues in the journal BMJ Case Rep (2018).
Pseudotumor cerebri means “false brain tumor” because its symptoms are similar to those caused by brain tumors. It's also known as idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
The boy was admitted to the hospital with “daily pulsatile frontotemporal headache, pallor, photophobia and phonophobia, without night awakening, vomiting or visual changes,” wrote the authors.
The doctors initially suspected a pseudotumor cerebri. The tests were ...
Lyme disease causes “false brain tumor” in young child
In this episode, Dr. Cameron discusses the case of a 9-year-old boy who developed symptoms often associated with a brain tumor but was diagnosed with Lyme disease and secondary pseudotumor cerebri.
