An 83-Year-Old Man With a Stroke Associated With Lyme Disease Stroke associated with Lyme disease is rare but has been reported in patients with neurologic Lyme disease. In this episode of the Inside Lyme Podcast, Dr. Cameron reviews the case of an 83-year-old man who developed a stroke associated with Lyme disease. Dr. Cameron believes […]
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Dr. Cameron feels that the best way to get to know Lyme disease is through reviewing actual cases. In this Inside Lyme Podcast episode, he will be discussing how to remove a deer tick from an 8-year-old girl’s eye. Jaroudi and colleagues first discussed this case in the journal Case Reports in Ophthalmology in 2020.
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PTLDS: Four Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Cases Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS) affects a subset of Lyme disease patients who continue to experience symptoms after completing antibiotic therapy. In this Inside Lyme case study, I review four patients who developed PTLDS following treatment for early Lyme disease. By Dr. Daniel Cameron Wormser and colleagues first described
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Antibiotics for Lyme Disease Symptoms: Do They Help Non-Specific Cases? Symptoms may be vague but real Testing may be positive Response to antibiotics varies The answer is not always clear Antibiotics for Lyme disease non-specific symptoms remain an area of ongoing debate. A recent study examined whether patients with vague but persistent symptoms—and positive Lyme
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Lyme Disease Forces Army Officer Out of Military Lyme disease can affect anyone who spends time outdoors, including military personnel who train in wooded or mountainous terrain. In this Inside Lyme case study, I discuss a 24-year-old Army officer whose military career ended after developing severe complications from Lyme disease. By Dr. Daniel Cameron Tick-borne
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Four Lyme Disease Patients Develop Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS) Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) refers to patients who remain ill after antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease. In this Inside Lyme case study, I discuss four Lyme disease patients who continued to experience persistent symptoms after treatment. Wormser and colleagues first described these cases in
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Flaws in Lyme Disease Clinical Trials: ALDF Article Critiqued Debate continues over whether persistent symptoms after Lyme disease treatment may reflect ongoing infection. An article from the American Lyme Disease Foundation (ALDF) argues that clinical trials show no evidence of persistent infection, but important limitations of those trials are often overlooked. Dr. Phillip Baker, former
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Lyme Disease Forces 24-Year-Old Army Officer Out of the Military Lyme disease can affect anyone who spends time outdoors, including military personnel who train in wooded and tick-endemic environments. In this Inside Lyme Podcast case study, I discuss a 24-year-old Army officer whose military career ended after developing complications from Lyme disease. Dr. Cameron believes
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Babesia Infection in a 6-Week-Old Infant: Tick-Borne Case Study Babesia infection in infants is rare—but this case shows that even very young babies can develop tick-borne disease. In this Inside Lyme case study, I discuss a 6-week-old infant diagnosed with Babesia in Long Island, New York, an area where Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections
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The authors compared 16 individuals with Lyme disease receiving TNF-α inhibitors with 32 healthy controls to understand whether suppressing their immunity is harmful. The individuals had confirmed Lyme disease with an erythema migrans rash manifestation. The patients received immune-suppressing medications, which included adalimumab, infliximab, etanercept, golimumab. Th Lyme Disease and Immunosuppressants: A Higher Risk of
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