Proportion of confirmed Lyme neuroborreliosis cases among adult patients with suspected early European Lyme neuroborreliosis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine the frequency of confirmed Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) cases in adult patients with three different clinical presentations consistent with early LNB.

Methods

Data were obtained through routine health care at the UMC Ljubljana, Slovenia from 2005 to 2022, using clinical pathways. The patients were classified into three groups: (i) radicular pain of new onset (N = 332); or (ii) involvement of cranial nerve(s) but without radicular pain (N = 997); or (iii) erythema migrans (EM) skin lesion(s) in conjunction with symptoms suggestive of nervous system involvement but without either cranial nerve palsy or radicular pain (N = 240). The diagnosis of LNB considered the following variables: the presence of: (1) neurologic symptoms consistent with LNB (with no othe

SUBMITTER: Ogrinc K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12316712 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature