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Constipation heralding neuroborreliosis: an atypical tale of 2 patients.

Shamim EA, Shamim SA, Liss G, Nylen E, Pincus JH, Yepes M

Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center.

This is a report of 2 patients with Lyme disease who initially presented with severe constipation, which progressed to ascending muscular weakness resembling acute idiopathic polyneuritis, with neuropsychiatric symptoms, severe urinary retention, and hyponatremia. These symptoms resolved following proper antibiotic therapy.

Published 12 April 2005 in Arch Neurol, 62(4): 671-3.
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