Posts Tagged ‘imaging’

Comparative Cryo-Electron Tomography of Pathogenic Lyme Disease Spirochetes

Molecular Microbiology, 2009. A new fast-freeze tomography imaging technique uncovers differences between different species of Borrelia and similarities with syphilis bacteria. Includes charts, images, tables.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06613.x/full

MRIs Showing MS Pathology Even in Asymptomatic Patients

MedPage Today, 2008.  MRIs that are being made for migraine, head trauma, vertigo, and panic attacks are turning up lesions that resemble MS.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Nephrology/GeneralNephrology/12106

Advances in Understanding Illness Anxiety

Current Psychiatry Report (abstract only).  Examines the literature on hypochondria in comparison with actual symptoms with unknown causes.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18627669

Regional Cerebral Blood Flow and Cognitive Deficits in Chronic Lyme Disease

New York State Psychiatric Institute. 11 patients with Lyme disease and cognitive complaints (encephalopathy) were given neuropsychological testing and brain imaging, and results were compared to norms for each. Includes images, tables.

http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/reprint/15/3/326

MRI Features of Lyme Arthritis in Children

American Journal of Roentgenology. 11 children with Lyme arthritis are compared with 7 with septic arthritis for distinct differences. Includes charts and MRI images.

http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/reprint/184/6/1904

Lyme Neuroborreliosis: Recognition, Treatment, and Retreatment of Relapse

13th International Scientific Conference on Lyme Disease and other Tick-borne Disorders. Oski, of Turku University, Finland, examined the issues involved in the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme neuroborreliosis.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/412991

Review of Lyme Neuroborreliosis

13th International Scientific Conference on Lyme Disease and other Tick-borne Disorders. A review of the latest findings in the diagnosis and treatment of neurologic Lyme disease, including MRI and PET scans and brain similarities.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/412987

Neurologic Lyme Disease

From a Russian site on neuropathology, an overview by Brian Fallon, circa 1999, of the problems in detecting neuroborreliosis.

http://deppathology.chat.ru/Neurologic%20Lyme%20Disease.htm

Acute and Chronic Lyme Disease: Controversies for Neuropsychiatry

Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. Review of the literature on Lyme in the early, late, and chronic stages, including differing viewpoints. Includes images.

http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/iv