Dr. Daniel Cameron

Clinical presentation of individuals with a history of Lyme-disease-and-covid-19/ Cases of Lyme Disease and COVID-19 Case 1: A 45-year-old white woman with a partial college education was working as a groundskeeper. She had a history of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, irritable bowel syndrome, and viral meningitis. She had been ill for 37 years. There was not a […]

Are Military Family Members at Risk for Lyme Disease? Lyme disease risk for military families may be higher than previously recognized. A study by Schubert and Melanson examined exposure to the black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis), the primary vector for Lyme disease, among military personnel and their families at West Point, New York. The study, entitled

Diagnosing Lyme arthritis of the hip in children “The clinical presentation of Lyme arthritis (LA) of the hip can be similar to both acute bacterial septic arthritis (SA) and transient synovitis (TS),” explains Cruz and colleagues. ¹ “Differentiating between SA, LA, and TS of the hip can be challenging, even for the most discerning clinician.”

Case review: 80-year-old with Lyme encephalopathy instead of dementia “While mostly vigilant and awake, he intermittently lacked full orientation, had reduced attention, concentration, short-term memory function, increased motor activity, mild formal thought disorder (incl. some tangential thinking), but no frank psychotic symptoms,” the authors explain. The man was diagnosed with delirium, potentially related to dementia.

Lyme Carditis Heart Block Progression Can Occur Within Hours Lyme carditis heart block progression can occur with alarming speed. Two cases show conduction deteriorating from normal rhythm or first-degree block to complete heart block within hours to overnight. A 33-year-old woman progressed from first-degree to complete block within hours of admission, while a 72-year-old man