Dr. Daniel Cameron

Lyme Myocarditis: Another Cardiac Manifestation of Lyme Disease Lyme disease can affect the heart in ways that are sometimes unexpected. In one reported case, a patient presented with conduction abnormalities and reduced cardiac function consistent with Lyme myocarditis. A 30-year-old man presented to the emergency department with “a pulse of 53/min and annular macular rash […]

When Lyme Disease Mimics a Heart Attack: Lyme Myocarditis Chest pain from Lyme disease can closely resemble a heart attack. In some cases, patients present with elevated cardiac biomarkers and EKG changes indistinguishable from acute coronary syndrome—until further evaluation reveals a different cause. By Dr. Daniel Cameron Presentation Mimicking Myocardial Infarction According to the authors,

What Are the Symptoms of Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome? Patients with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) often have normal lab tests and physical exams—yet their symptoms are real, measurable, and clinically significant. A Johns Hopkins study identified 19 symptoms that help define this often-dismissed condition. Why Standard Tests Often Miss PTLDS In their article published

How Long Do PTLDS Symptoms Last? Some patients recover quickly after Lyme disease treatment. Others continue to experience fatigue, cognitive slowing, joint pain, dizziness, or sleep disruption long after antibiotics are completed. Persistent Lyme disease symptoms describe this ongoing clinical phase following infection. In medical research, this pattern is often categorized as Post-Treatment Lyme Disease

Rare Skin Manifestation of Lyme Disease in a Child A 6-year-old girl developed an unusual skin presentation of Lyme disease—highlighting how early infection can be missed when symptoms fall outside typical patterns. The child initially presented with an erythema migrans (EM) rash, followed weeks later by an areolar lymphocytoma involving her breast. She had recently

Single Dose Doxycycline for Lyme Disease: A Case With Poor Outcome A 61-year-old man developed severe neurologic Lyme disease after receiving only a single dose of doxycycline—highlighting the risks of undertreatment in early infection. In the January 2018 issue of the British Medical Journal, Ebner and colleagues describe a patient who presented with severe shooting

Lyme Disease Bacteria Dates Back to the Ice Age Lyme disease may feel like a modern epidemic—but the bacteria behind it is not new. In an effort to understand the evolutionary history of Borrelia burgdorferi, Walter and colleagues at Yale University analyzed one of the largest collections of bacterial genomes assembled to date, using ticks

Delayed Lyme Disease Treatment Leads to Carditis and Vision Loss Lyme disease can progress quickly when early symptoms are overlooked or ignored. A 66-year-old man became ill within one week of a tick bite to the back of his neck. One month later, he collapsed and lost consciousness, according to Sharma and colleagues in The

Using Dogs to Track Lyme Disease Risk in West Virginia Dogs may provide an early warning system for Lyme disease risk in humans. Researchers have long used animal sentinel studies to monitor the spread of Lyme disease. Domestic dogs are particularly useful because of their frequent outdoor exposure, known travel history, and ability to develop