Lyme Disease Presenting as Urinary Retention
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 143 (6) , 1223-1224
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5347(17)40231-x
Abstract
We report a case of Lyme disease that presented with urinary retention. The individual then experienced lower extremity paralysis. Paralysis and urinary retention resolved with intravenous ceftriaxone antibiotic. To our knowledge this is the first report of a urological manifestation as the initial clinical presentation of Lyme disease. Recognition of clinical symptoms and urological complications of Lyme disease also are discussed.Keywords
This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
- Lyme DiseaseNew England Journal of Medicine, 1989
- Lyme neuroborreliosisNeurology, 1989
- Borrelia burgdorferiin the Nervous System: The New “Great Imitator”Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1988
- Lyme diseaseThe Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 1988
- ACUTE TRANSVERSE MYELITIS AS PRESENTING NEUROLOGICAL FEATURE OF LYME DISEASEThe Lancet, 1986
- Successful Parenteral Penicillin Therapy of Established Lyme ArthritisNew England Journal of Medicine, 1985
- Neurologic Abnormalities of Lyme Disease: Successful Treatment with High-Dose Intravenous PenicillinAnnals of Internal Medicine, 1983
- The Spirochetal Etiology of Lyme DiseaseNew England Journal of Medicine, 1983
- Demyelinating neuropathy accompanying Lyme diseaseNeurology, 1982
- Lyme Disease—a Tick-Borne Spirochetosis?Science, 1982