Unilateral phrenic nerve lesion in Lyme neuroborreliosis

BACKGROUND: Among a variety of more common differential diagnoses, the aetiology of acute respiratory failure includes Lyme neuroborreliosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an 87-years old huntsman with unilateral phrenic nerve palsy as a consequence of Lyme neuroborreliosis. CONCLUSION: Although Lyme...

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Autores principales: Djukic, Marija, Larsen, Jörg, Lingor, Paul, Nau, Roland
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3566936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23327473
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-13-4
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author Djukic, Marija
Larsen, Jörg
Lingor, Paul
Nau, Roland
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description BACKGROUND: Among a variety of more common differential diagnoses, the aetiology of acute respiratory failure includes Lyme neuroborreliosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an 87-years old huntsman with unilateral phrenic nerve palsy as a consequence of Lyme neuroborreliosis. CONCLUSION: Although Lyme neuroborreliosis is a rare cause of diaphragmatic weakness, it should be considered in the differential workup because of its potentially treatable nature.
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spelling pubmed-35669362013-02-11 Unilateral phrenic nerve lesion in Lyme neuroborreliosis Djukic, Marija Larsen, Jörg Lingor, Paul Nau, Roland BMC Pulm Med Case Report BACKGROUND: Among a variety of more common differential diagnoses, the aetiology of acute respiratory failure includes Lyme neuroborreliosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an 87-years old huntsman with unilateral phrenic nerve palsy as a consequence of Lyme neuroborreliosis. CONCLUSION: Although Lyme neuroborreliosis is a rare cause of diaphragmatic weakness, it should be considered in the differential workup because of its potentially treatable nature. BioMed Central 2013-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3566936/ /pubmed/23327473 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-13-4 Text en Copyright ©2013 Djukic et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Unilateral phrenic nerve lesion in Lyme neuroborreliosis
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title_full_unstemmed Unilateral phrenic nerve lesion in Lyme neuroborreliosis
title_short Unilateral phrenic nerve lesion in Lyme neuroborreliosis
title_sort unilateral phrenic nerve lesion in lyme neuroborreliosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3566936/
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