Internet-based self-diagnosis of Lyme disease caused death in a young woman with systemic lupus erythematosus

Abstract

We report a 37-year-old female, a Faculty of Science graduate, with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) who was repeatedly misdiagnosed for a Lyme disease and treated with tetracycline antibiotics before she developed an acute exacerbation of SLE and finally died due to multi-organ failure.

Keywords

• Systemic lupus erythematosus
• SLE
• Lyme disease
• Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome
• Borrelia
• Autoimmunity
• IVF
• Self-diagnosis