Teenager With Stroke Symptoms Actually Had Lyme Disease

Monday, March 9, 2015 - 13:40 in Health & Medicine

A Swiss teenager, recently returned home from a discotheque, came to the emergency department with classic sudden symptoms of stroke, only to be diagnosed with Lyme disease. The highly unusual case presentation was published in "Acute Lyme Neuroborreliosis with Transient Hemiparesis and Aphasia", Annals of Emergency Medicine. read more

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