LYME DISEASE (CASE REPORT)
Abstract:
Lyme disease is a disease caused by Borrelia
Burgdorferi, a spirochete which is transmitted through
the bite of a tick. Unrecognized in primary stage, the
disease may progress to subsequent consequences
producing lesions of the skin, joints, cardiovascular
system, nervous system-paralysis of cranial nerves,
meningoradiculoneuritis, meningitis, chronic
encephalitis, paraparesis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue
syndrome. We present a patient with neurological
impairment (neuroborreliosis) with one year evolution,
treated with multiple neurological, antidepressant and
anxyoltic medication, with progressively unfavourable
evolution in the absence of the etiological treatment.
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