Brain herniation death in pediatric cerebral lyme borreliosis followed by kidney organ donation

Abstract

Fatal pediatric patient outcomes in chronic Lyme borreliosis are rarely identified. One sudden cardiac Lyme death in a seventeen-year-old black adolescent has been autopsy confirmed and reported in 2017 from Westchester, New York four years after his death in 2013. Herein is a case report of a pediatric Lyme disease brain death in a nineteen-month-old South Asian infant whose duration of disease was twelve months after sustaining three ixodid tick bites, to his sudden death from cerebellar tonsil herniation. This infant’s kidneys were transplanted into an unknown recipient.