Actress Natascha McElhone's tribute book is too painful for her family. At one point, she thought she would lose their house, but eventually found a lawyer who helped her find a way through the tangle of taxes and bureaucracy.
In his 1988 article, Clinical pathologic correlations of Lyme disease by stage, noted Lyme disease researcher Alan Steere observed, [...] the perivascular lymphoid infiltrate in clinical myositis does not differ from that seen in polymyositis or dermatomyositis.t is also a type of autoimmune connective tissue disease. It is related to polymyositis and inclusion body myositis. There is a form of this disorder that strikes children, known as juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM).
Lyme Disease. Test Selection for Early Lyme Disease. Diagnosis of Lyme disease (B burgdorferi infection) is best made on the basis of a history of exposure to the vector tick or tick habitat and clinical findings. Clinical findings, as well as laboratory testing, vary with the stage of the disease (Table 5). Diagnosis of early-stage, localized Lyme disease can be made on the basis of erythema migrans alone without laboratory testing.