LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS ASSOCIATED WITH THROMBOPHILIA – THE QUANDARY OF THE PARTICIPATION OF THESE TWO DISORDERS IN VISUAL ALTERATIONS: A CASE REPORT
Abstract:
Each year, more than 300 000 cases of Lyme disease are confirmed in the US and 85 000
cases in Europe, of which in 15%-20% cases, the central nervous system involvement is recorded.
Chronic Lyme encephalopathy, rarely associated in North America, more commonly described in
Europe, is hard to be diagnosed after a long period of time after the infection; no clinical or
imagistic elements are evocative for neuroborreliosis. The presented case is of a patient with
unidentified thrombophilia with borreliosis that causes brain thrombosis, unusual manifestations
of reversible blindness and amputation of the vision field
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