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Lyme disease triggers inflammation in “hindbrain”
A 52-year-old woman was hospitalized with rhombencephalitis (inflammation of the rhombencephalon, also known as the hindbrain). The condition was found to be triggered by an infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease.
Lyme myocarditis in patient with no other signs of Lyme disease
In their case report, “Fulminant Lyme myocarditis without any other signs of Lyme disease in a 37-year-old male patient with microscopic polyangiitis,” Schroeter and colleagues describe a patient with microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), a rare type of vasculitis who was admitted to the hospital with acute heart failure.