Table 1.

Baseline data and initial neurological symptoms and signs of patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis.

Parameters	Value
Age, years, median (IQR); min–max, N = 103	60 (46–70); 18–90;
Sex, male, N (%)	50 (48.5)
History of tick bite ≤ 120 days before LNB symptoms, N (%)	40 (38.8)
Pre-existing conditions, N (%)	56 (54.4)
Arterial hypertension	41 (39.8)
Diabetes	7 (6.8)
Incubation period (days), median (IQR); min–max, N = 27	35 (27–81); 10–113
Time from the onset of EM until the first symptom of LNB (days), median (IQR); min–max, N = 24	18 (14–36.3); 4–98
Time from the onset of LNB symptoms until hospitalization (days), median (IQR); min–max, N = 95	20 (8–31); 0–257
Defined LNB, N (%)	95 (92.2)
Possible LNB, N (%)	8 (7.8)
The presence of EM, N (%)	5/8 (62.5)
Isolated polyradiculitis	2
The presence of EM	2/2
Polyradiculitis + peripheral facial palsy	2
The presence of EM	½
Isolated peripheral facial palsy*	2
The presence of EM	0
Only lymphocytic meningitis	2
The presence of EM	2/2
The initial neurological symptoms and signs of early LNB, N (%)
The radicular pain	71 (71)
Peripheral facial palsy	14 (14)
Signs of encephalitis	10 (10)
Occipital neuralgia	6 (6)

*Concomitant with CSF pleocytosis, LNB Lyme neuroborreliosis, EM erythema migrans.