ABSTRACT
Three cases of psychic disorders in the course of Lyme borreliosis were described. Two cases were connected with Lyme meningitis, one of them with chronic Lyme arthritis. These cases were described to discuss the possible occurrence of mental disturbances in the course of Lyme borreliosis, directly or indirectly connected with the central nervous system.
Subject(s)
Borrelia burgdorferi Group/isolation & purification , Lyme Disease/psychology , Mental Disorders/etiology , Female , Humans , Lyme Disease/microbiology , Male , Meningitis, Bacterial/microbiology , Meningitis, Bacterial/psychology , Mental Disorders/diagnosis , Middle AgedABSTRACT
In the years 1963-1992, 560 patients with the diagnosis of trichinosis were treated in the Department of Parasitic Diseases and Neuroinfections, including 310 women (55.3%) and 250 men (44.7%) aged from 6 to 75 years. Out of this number of patients in 59 cases (10.5%) myocardial damage was found in the course of the disease. The most frequently found changes in ECG record were ventricular repolarization disturbances (66.1%) which persisted in 18.6% of cases before discharge from the hospital. Depolarization disturbances accounted for 32.2% of cases and persisted before discharge from the hospital in 10.1% of patients. In 6.7% of patients, persistence of pathological ECG record was found during the 4th month after the hospitalization which may be an evidence of prolongation of the inflammatory process within the myocardium.
