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BAGGIO YOSHINARI DISEASE (BYD) IN A PATIENT WITH CLINICAL MANIFESTATION OF CHOREA

2019; Linguagem: Inglês

10.5151/sbr2019-040

2357-7282

Rodrigo Antunes da Silveira, NICOLAS NISIYAMAMOTO BARBOZA, Danielli Aparecida Selegatto, Isadora Melo Zambuzzi, MONICA MARIA CANAVEZI, POLLYANNA VERONICA CORTELASSI, MAYSA ALECSEEV DE MELO, BEATRIZ LOPES GALISTEU, Philipe Sousa Silveira, CECILIA DÁVILA CHAMBI, Bruna Verri De Martino, YOLANDA VALÉRIA SOUZA, Beatriz Jardim de Siqueira Branco, GABRIEL DOMINGUES DOS SANTOS, LIVIA GEOVANA FALCÃO VIEIRA CELESTINO, Ana Carolina Dias Costa, SERGIO AUGUSTO YUKIO HISSAYASSU, Daniela Gomes Chicre Oliveira, Jacqueline Kaori Tozaki Tamada, Flávia Macedo Quintao de Sá, D. Moreira,

Neurological diseases and metabolism

The BYD is a chronic infectious disease, hard to diagnose, caused by Borrelia burgdoferi, with neurological, osteoarticular and cutaneous manifestations. Borrelia burgdoferi is an intracellular bacterium similar to American borreliosis, which is challenging to treat with antibiotics. The disease often has a neurological picture, being more common the involvement of cranial pairs and peripheral neuropathies. In the case below, there was chorea associated with diffuse myalgia, with difficult treatment, even using the protocol for the treatment of neurological manifestations in Brazilian Lyme disease. There is no definitive algorithm on the use of immunoglobulin in these patients, in this case report, there was a good response to the treatment.