Anaplasmosis in the brain
Inside Lyme Podcast with Dr. Daniel Cameron
English - January 25, 2022 05:00 - 13 minutes - 9.55 MBMedicine Health & Fitness lyme disease babesia tick Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode, Dr. Cameron will be discussing the case of a 64-year-old woman with central nervous system involvement of the brain.
The case was first described by Mullholand and colleagues in the British Medical Journal in a paper entitled “Central nervous system involvement of anaplasmosis.” 1
A 64-year-old woman was hospitalized with a 24-hour history of confusion and lethargy. The following morning, her lethargy had worsened and she developed subjective fever, mild headache, nausea, vomiting and increased confusion, according to the authors.