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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Anmol Pitliya, M.B.B.S. M.D.[2], Ilan Dock, B.S.
Overview
Lyme disease is divided into 3 stages and symptoms are stage specific. Initial symptoms include "bulls-eye" rash, with accompanying flu-like symptoms. It can progress to cardiovascular or neurological complications.
History
- The incubation period from infection to the onset of symptoms is usually 1–2 weeks, but can be much shorter (days), or much longer (months to years). Symptoms most often occur from May through September because the nymphal stage of the tick is responsible for most cases. [1]Asymptomatic infection exists, but is uncommon.[2]
- The specific areas of focus when obtaining the history, are outlined below:
Symptoms
Lyme disease is divided into 3 stages and symptoms are stage specific.
- Stage 1 - Early localized disease
- Stage 2 - Early disseminated disease
- Stage 3 - Late disseminated disease
Stage 1 - Early localized disease
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Features of early localized disease includes erythema migrans and flu-like symptoms.
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Stage 2 - Early disseminate disease
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Features of early disseminated disease can be divided system wise and includes:
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- Cardiac manifestations
- Dermatological manifestations[9]
- Borrelial lymphocytoma: Most common site is earlobe.
- Ocular manifestations[10]
- Primary ocular symptoms occurs due to inflammation of ocular tissue. These symptoms includes conjunctivitis, keratitis, iridocyclitis, retinal vasculitis, chorioiditis, and optic neuropathy (extremely rarely episcleritis, panuveitis, panophthalmitis).
- Secondary ocular symptoms occurs due to extraocular manifestations. These symptoms includes pareses of cranial nerves and orbital myositis.
Stage 3 - Late disseminated disease
- Features of late disseminated disease can take months to years to manifest after the onset of infection.
- Lyme arthritis is dominant months later but chronic neurologic involvement becomes more obvious years later.
- The symptoms of late disseminated lyme disease includes:
- Musculoskeletal manifestation:
- Lyme arthritis
- Lyme arthritis is the hallmark of stage 3 Lyme disease.
- Most frequently presented symptom in late disseminated Lyme disease.
- Commonly affects knee joint.
- Lyme arthritis
- Neurological manifestations:
- These neurological symptoms may take months to years to manifest after the infection. In addition to acute symptoms, Neuroborrerliosis can be manifested by a wide-range of neurological disorders, either central or peripheral including:
- Encephalopathy (sub-acute): Affects memory, mood, sleep, and sometimes with subtle language disturbances.
- Polyneuropathy or Paresthesia
- Leukoencephalitis[11]
- Muscle twitching
- Otolaryngologic manifestations: Neck pain, odynophagia, head and neck dysesthesia, otalgia, tinnitus, hearing loss, vertigo, temporomandibular joint pain, lymphadenopathy, dysgeusia.[12][13]
- Neuropsychiatric symptoms often develop much later in the disease progression, much like tertiary neurosyphilis.[14]
- In rare cases, frank psychosis have been attributed to chronic Lyme disease effects, including misdiagnoses of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
- Panic attack and anxiety can occur, also delusional behavior, including somatoform delusions, sometimes accompanied by a depersonalization or derealization syndrome similar to what was seen in the past in the prodromal or early stages of general paresis.[15]
- These neurological symptoms may take months to years to manifest after the infection. In addition to acute symptoms, Neuroborrerliosis can be manifested by a wide-range of neurological disorders, either central or peripheral including:
- Dermatological manifestation[9]
- Musculoskeletal manifestation:
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| Features | Europe | North America |
| Erythema migrans | Single lesion more frequently | Multiple lesions occurs more freuqently |
| Heterogenous dissemination | Less common | More common |
| Borrelial lymphocytoma | Present | Absent |
| Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans | Present | Absent |
| Meningoradiculoneuritis | More common | Less common |
| Lyme arthritis | Rarely preceded by erythema migrans | Commonly preceded by erythema migrans |
Erythema Migrans
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Lyme Carditis
- Cardiac involvement occurs in about 5—10% of untreated Lyme disease and patients usually have symptoms related to fluctuating degrees of atrioventricular block (first-degree block to complete heart block) including lightheadedness, palpitations, shortness of breath, chest pain, and syncope.[23]
- Less commonly, patients may present with an acute picture of left ventricular dysfunction, cardiomegaly, perimyocarditis, or pancarditis without noticeable cardiac murmurs.[24]
- Lyme carditis can occur independently, it is usually accompanied by other cutaneous, joint, or neurologic features of Lyme disease.[25]
Lyme Arthritis
- Lyme arthritis is the hallmark of stage 3 Lyme disease.
- Lyme arthritis is most frequently presented symptom in late disseminated Lyme disease.
- Lyme arthritis is not necessarily preceded by erythema migrans.
- Lyme arthritis may occur due to hematogenous spread of B. burgdorferi to multiple joints during early infection. This might explain migratory arthralgia during early stage of Lyme disease.
- It usually takes months to years for Lyme disease to progress to Lyme arthritis.
- Lyme arthritis symptoms ranges from intermittent attack of monoarthritis/oligoarthritis to persistent arthritis.
- Intermittent attack of Lyme arthritis ranges from 3 days to 11.5 months in duration with a mean of 3 months.[26]
- During early years of illness, attacks of Lyme arthritis are more frequent and longer in duration. Both frequency and duration of attacks decreases subsequently.
- There may month or years of complete remission between each attack of Lyme arthritis.
- Majority of times Lyme arthritis involves large joints. Most commonly affected joint is knee joint, but any joint can be affected including shoulder, ankle, elbow, temporomandibular joint, and wrist.
- Tendonitis and/or bursitis may also be present in few patients. Majority of times joints involved were shoulder, knee, or elbow .
- Majority of patients have little/no joint dysfunction after remission of attack. Few patients with persistent arthritis may show erosion and permanent damage to joint.[27]
Manifestations of Lyme Disease by Stage
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Adapted from Steere AC. Lyme disease. N Engl J Med. 1989;321:586.
References
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- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Wormser GP, McKenna D, Carlin J, Nadelman RB, Cavaliere LF, Holmgren D; et al. (2005). "Brief communication: hematogenous dissemination in early Lyme disease". Ann Intern Med. 142 (9): 751–5. PMID 15867407.
- ↑ Halperin JJ (2008). "Nervous system Lyme disease". Infect Dis Clin North Am. 22 (2): 261–74, vi. doi:10.1016/j.idc.2007.12.009. PMID 18452800.
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- ↑ Rosenhall U, Hanner P, Kaijser B (1988). "Borrelia infection and vertigo". Acta Otolaryngol. 106 (1–2): 111–6. PMID 3421091.
- ↑ Moscatello AL, Worden DL, Nadelman RB, Wormser G, Lucente F (1991). "Otolaryngologic aspects of Lyme disease". Laryngoscope. 101 (6 Pt 1): 592–5. PMID 2041438.
- ↑ Logigian, Eric L.; Kaplan, Richard F.; Steere, Allen C. (1990). "Chronic Neurologic Manifestations of Lyme Disease". New England Journal of Medicine. 323 (21): 1438–1444. doi:10.1056/NEJM199011223232102. ISSN 0028-4793.
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- ↑ Ciesielski CA, Markowitz LE, Horsley R, Hightower AW, Russell H, Broome CV (1989). "Lyme disease surveillance in the United States, 1983-1986". Rev. Infect. Dis. 11 Suppl 6: S1435–41. PMID 2682955.
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- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Feder HM, Abeles M, Bernstein M, Whitaker-Worth D, Grant-Kels JM (2006). "Diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of erythema migrans and Lyme arthritis". Clin Dermatol. 24 (6): 509–20. doi:10.1016/j.clindermatol.2006.07.012. PMID 17113969.
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- ↑ Smith RP, Schoen RT, Rahn DW, Sikand VK, Nowakowski J, Parenti DL; et al. (2002). "Clinical characteristics and treatment outcome of early Lyme disease in patients with microbiologically confirmed erythema migrans". Ann Intern Med. 136 (6): 421–8. PMID 11900494.
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- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Steere, Allen C. (1989). "Lyme Disease". New England Journal of Medicine. 321 (9): 586–596. doi:10.1056/NEJM198908313210906. ISSN 0028-4793.
- ↑ Fish, Airley E.; Pride, Yuri B.; Pinto, Duane S. (2008). "Lyme Carditis". Infectious Disease Clinics of North America. 22 (2): 275–288. doi:10.1016/j.idc.2007.12.008. ISSN 0891-5520.
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