Colocalization of Radicular Pain and Erythema Migrans in Patients With Bannwarth Syndrome Suggests a Direct Spread of Borrelia Into the Central Nervous System.
B. garinii
Bannwarth syndrome
Lyme neuroborreliosis
erythema migrans
radicular pain
Journal
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
ISSN: 1537-6591
Titre abrégé: Clin Infect Dis
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9203213
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
24 08 2022
24 08 2022
Historique:
received:
21
07
2021
pubmed:
5
10
2021
medline:
30
8
2022
entrez:
4
10
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
There is a general assumption that after deposition into skin, Lyme borreliae disseminate hematogenously to other organs, resulting in extracutaneous manifestations of Lyme borreliosis, including Lyme neuroborreliosis. However, our experience over the past 40 years, along with several published case reports that observed colocalization of radicular pain and erythema migrans (EM) in patients with borrelial meningoradiculoneuritis (Bannwarth syndrome), argues against hematogenous dissemination in Lyme neuroborreliosis. We compared the location of EM in 112 patients with Bannwarth syndrome to 12315 EM patients without neurological involvement. Moreover, we assessed the colocalization of EM and radicular pain in patients with Bannwarth syndrome. Compared to >12000 EM patients without neurological involvement, patients with Bannwarth syndrome had a significantly higher frequency of EM on head/neck (6% vs 1%; P=.0005) and trunk (47% vs 24%; P<.0001), similar frequency on arms (16% vs 16%; P=.91), but lower frequency on legs (30% vs 59%; P<.0001). Moreover, in 79% (89/112) of patients the site of EM matched the dermatomes of radicular pain. The odds for a congruent location of EM and radicular pain were highly significant with the highest odds ratios (OR) observed for head (OR=221), followed by neck (OR=159), legs (OR=69), arms (OR=48), and trunk (OR=33). The greater frequency of EM on head/neck and trunk and the colocalization of EM with radicular pain in patients with Bannwarth syndrome suggest that central nervous system involvement in Lyme neuroborreliosis is due to a retrograde spread of borrelia from skin to the spinal cord via peripheral nerves.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
There is a general assumption that after deposition into skin, Lyme borreliae disseminate hematogenously to other organs, resulting in extracutaneous manifestations of Lyme borreliosis, including Lyme neuroborreliosis. However, our experience over the past 40 years, along with several published case reports that observed colocalization of radicular pain and erythema migrans (EM) in patients with borrelial meningoradiculoneuritis (Bannwarth syndrome), argues against hematogenous dissemination in Lyme neuroborreliosis.
METHODS
We compared the location of EM in 112 patients with Bannwarth syndrome to 12315 EM patients without neurological involvement. Moreover, we assessed the colocalization of EM and radicular pain in patients with Bannwarth syndrome.
RESULTS
Compared to >12000 EM patients without neurological involvement, patients with Bannwarth syndrome had a significantly higher frequency of EM on head/neck (6% vs 1%; P=.0005) and trunk (47% vs 24%; P<.0001), similar frequency on arms (16% vs 16%; P=.91), but lower frequency on legs (30% vs 59%; P<.0001). Moreover, in 79% (89/112) of patients the site of EM matched the dermatomes of radicular pain. The odds for a congruent location of EM and radicular pain were highly significant with the highest odds ratios (OR) observed for head (OR=221), followed by neck (OR=159), legs (OR=69), arms (OR=48), and trunk (OR=33).
CONCLUSIONS
The greater frequency of EM on head/neck and trunk and the colocalization of EM with radicular pain in patients with Bannwarth syndrome suggest that central nervous system involvement in Lyme neuroborreliosis is due to a retrograde spread of borrelia from skin to the spinal cord via peripheral nerves.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34606609
pii: 6381107
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab867
pmc: PMC9402604
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
81-87Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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