A case report came out presenting a 43 year old patient who had profound cerebrovascular infarcts and was found to have neuroborreliosis, which is the type of Lyme disease that has spread to infect the brain. The infection was causing the patient to develop meningitis which proceeded to create several infarcts that lead to stroke. (The patient survived in the end.)
It was proposed that patients who don't already have a clear risk to developing stroke or cerebrovascular episodes (such as from an existing atherosclerosis), should be suspected to have Lyme disease and be tested anyway.
Has anyone ever encountered Lyme disease manifesting this way?
Source of article: "Stroke as an Unusual First Presentation of Lyme Disease", by Mohamad Almoussa, Angelika Goertzen, Barbara Fauser, and Christoph W. Zimmermann
Case Reports in Neurological Medicine
Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 389081, 4 pages
Note: This post is not intended to be a diagnostic guideline, but a prompt for educational purposes and dialogue.
It was proposed that patients who don't already have a clear risk to developing stroke or cerebrovascular episodes (such as from an existing atherosclerosis), should be suspected to have Lyme disease and be tested anyway.
Has anyone ever encountered Lyme disease manifesting this way?
Source of article: "Stroke as an Unusual First Presentation of Lyme Disease", by Mohamad Almoussa, Angelika Goertzen, Barbara Fauser, and Christoph W. Zimmermann
Case Reports in Neurological Medicine
Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 389081, 4 pages
Note: This post is not intended to be a diagnostic guideline, but a prompt for educational purposes and dialogue.