CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY IN ACUTE AND SUBACUTE ARACHNOIDITIS – A CASE SERIES

Yeng F Her,1 Ryan T McWilliams,2 Erik A Ovrom,3 James C Watson1 1Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Rochester, MN, USA; 2Family Medicine, Alaska Native Medical Center, Anchorage, AK, USA; 3Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Rochester, MN, USACorrespondence: Yeng F Her, Department o

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the northern hemisphere.Current serodiagnostics are insensitive in early infection.Sensitivity in these seroassays is compromised by the necessity to preserve specificity in the presence of cross-reactive epitopes in Borrelia burgdorferi target antigens.We evaluated the efficacy of using synth