Young man dies from Lyme carditis. An Inside Lyme Podcast.
Welcome to an Inside Lyme case study. In this case study, I will be discussing a 17-year-old young man who died of Lyme carditis. This case was discussed in the journal Cardiovascular Pathologist written by Yoon and colleagues in 2015.
What percentage of ticks have Lyme disease?
“Over the past 3 decades, there has been a steady increase in the number of newly discovered tick-borne agents,” writes Sanchez-Vicente and colleagues in the American Society for Microbiology.¹ In addition to ticks harboring these new pathogens, the ability of a single tick to carry and possibly transmit Lyme disease, along with multiple other polymicrobial (co-infections) is alarming.
Which Lyme disease guidelines should you follow for Lyme Carditis?
Lyme carditis occurs when Borrelia burgdorferi spirochete penetrate the pericardium (a membrane that encloses the heart) or myocardium (muscular tissue of the heart). The infection triggers an inflammatory response, typically causing atrioventricular (AV) conduction abnormalities, such as a first, second or third-degree heart block.
Babies contracted Babesia, a Lyme disease co-infection, during pregnancy.. An Inside Lyme Podcast.
Welcome to an Inside Lyme case study. In this case study, I will be discussing two babies who contacted Babesia from their mothers. These cases were described in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, written by Saetre and colleagues in 2017.
Psychiatric lyme disease
All too frequently patients with complex, multisystem illnesses are dismissed by clinicians, their symptoms often attributed to a psychiatric illness simply as “a diagnosis of default,” writes Bransfield in “Differentiating Psychosomatic, Somatopsychic, Multisystem Illnesses and Medical Uncertainty.”¹ This attitude can lead to tragic delays in identifying a correct diagnosis and appropriate treatment.
74-year-old woman with a triple tick attack
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 a 74-year-old woman with a triple tick attack. This case was initially described in the journal Cureus, written by Kumar and colleagues in 2019.A 74-year-old woman had underlying medical problems. She was a smoker with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). She also had hypertension. She was in shock and on a ventilator.She was also diagnosed with three tick-borne illnesses - Babesia, Anaplasmosis, and Lyme ...
6-week-old boy with Babesia
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 a 6-week old boy with Lyme disease. This case was first described in the journal Pediatrics, written by Handel and colleagues in 2019.The doctors were initially not able to identify the reason the boy was ill or why there was anemia or a low platelet count. The doctors prescribed three antibiotics - ampicillin, ceftriaxone, and vancomycin until they could determine a cause of the illness.The laboratory tests ...
5-week-old girl with Lyme disease.
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 a 5-week-old girl with Lyme disease. This case was first described in the journal Pediatrics, written by Handel and colleagues in 2019.The doctors were concerned that the girl might suffer from Lyme meningitis. This is an uncommon but important concern for the doctor treating Lyme disease. The spinal tap was not successful. The doctors treat for Lyme meningitis with intravenous antibiotics since they were still ...
17-year-old young man who dies of Lyme carditis
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 a 17-year-old young man who dies of Lyme Carditis. This case was first discussed in the journal Cardiovascular Pathologist written by Yoon and colleagues in 2015.The autopsy showed evidence of Lyme disease. The spirochetes that cause Lyme disease were found in the young man’s fresh liver and myocardial tissue. There was also evidence of these spirochetes in the heart, lung, and brain tissues using immunohistochem...
Conversion disorder, Guillain-Barré syndrome or neurologic Lyme disease?
The authors of “Atypical Lyme Neuroborreliosis, Guillain-Barré Syndrome or Conversion Disorder: Differential Diagnosis of Unusual Neurological Presentations” present a challenging diagnostic case involving a 62-year-old woman with symptoms consistent for multiple neurologic disorders.
