Post-treatment Lyme disease symptoms score: Developing a new tool for research. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Some patients have residual non-specific symptoms after therapy for Lyme disease, referred to as post-treatment Lyme disease symptoms or syndrome, depending on whether there is functional impairment. A standardized test battery was used to characterize a
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Association of small fiber neuropathy and post treatment Lyme disease syndrome. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 ObjectivesTo examine whether post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) defined by fatigue, cognitive complaints and widespread pain following the treatment of Lyme disease is associated with small fiber neuropathy (SFN) manifesting as autonomic and ...
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Effects of intravenous ketamine in a patient with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome [PDF]
International Medical Case Reports Journal, 2017 Ashraf F Hanna, Bishoy Abraham, Andrew Hanna, Adam J Smith Department of Pain Management, Florida Spine Institute, Clearwater, FL, USA Abstract: Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) is a pain disorder for which there remains no ...
Hanna AF, Abraham B, Hanna A, Smith AJ
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Risk of post-treatment Lyme disease in patients with ideally-treated early Lyme disease: A prospective cohort study. [PDF]
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022 Purpose: Post-treatment Lyme disease (PTLD) is characterized by patient-reported symptoms after treatment for Borrelia burgdorferi infection. The primary aim of this study was to assess whether participants with a history of Lyme disease (LD) would be ...
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Pilot study of psilocybin in patients with post-treatment lyme disease [PDF]
Scientific ReportsLyme disease, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States and Europe. Although antibiotics effectively treat most cases, an estimated 10–20% of patients develop post-treatment Lyme disease ...
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Lyme Disease and Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome: Current and Developing Treatment Options. [PDF]
Cureus, 2023 Lyme disease and its treatment implications have become an ever-increasing area of concern within the United States related to the markedly increased prevalence of infection within the last two decades. The presentation, pathophysiology, and epidemiology of Lyme disease have been well studied, and thus treatments for this disease are widely available ...
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Gene set predictor for post-treatment Lyme disease. [PDF]
Cell Rep Med, 2022 Lyme disease (LD) is tick-borne disease whose post-treatment sequelae are not well understood. For this study, we enrolled 152 individuals with symptoms of post-treatment LD (PTLD) to profile their peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) with RNA sequencing (RNA-seq).
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Update of the Swiss guidelines on post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2016 Lyme borreliosis is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infection, which responds well to antibiotic therapy in the overwhelming majority of cases.
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Imaging glial activation in patients with post-treatment Lyme disease symptoms: a pilot study using [11C]DPA-713 PET [PDF]
Journal of Neuroinflammation, 2018 The pathophysiology of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) may be linked to overactive immunity including aberrant activity of the brain’s resident immune cells, microglia.
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