Recurrent ischemic strokes revealing Lyme meningovascularitis;Une méningovascularite infectieuse de Lyme révé lée par des accidents ischémiques cérébraux successifs

Revue Neurologique

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-277

  Sparsa, L ^a   Blanc, F ^a   Lauer, V ^a   Cretin, B ^a   Marescaux, C ^a   Wolff, V ^a  

^a HÔPITAL CIVIL   (France)

Author keywords

Infectious meningovascularitis; Intrathecal anti Borrelia antibody index; Ischemic stroke; Neuroborreliosis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CEFTRIAXONE; CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MENINGOVASCULARITIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEROLOGY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; BORRELIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; RADIOGRAPHY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; STROKE; THALAMUS;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; RECURRENCE; STROKE; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 65449130007     PISSN: 00353787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2008.06.010     Document Type: Article

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