Klempner; 30 Days of IV Treatment was the Standard of Care
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: Klempner; 30 Days of IV Treatment was the Standard of Care
Date: May 15, 2010 10:49 AM
COMPLAINT BELOW
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Klempner's Standard of Care Study:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/345/2/85.pdf
"RESULTS
"Characteristics of the Patients
"A total of 129 patients were enrolled in the studies
(78 seropositive and 51 seronegative). The base-line
characteristics of the patients are shown in Table 1.
A total of 42 (33 percent) of the patients had previously
received intravenous antibiotic treatment for a
mean (±SD) of 30±12 days. All other previous treatment
consisted of oral antibiotics."
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Only a third of Klempner's victims had
received previous standard-of-care intravenous
antibiotics in this study which claimed
to be "a re-treatment study."
If you look at Table 1, above, there is no
breakdown as to what percentage of the neurologic
(seronegative
http://www.actionlyme.org/index.2.jpg )
Lyme victims vs. the seropositive [Steere's HLA
linked disease of only the knee:
http://www.actionlyme.org/STEERE_IN_EUROPE.htm
(look at the ^^ table where Steere shows his
arbitrary ELISA cutoffs)
Wormser and Klempner on Knee-Only:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/432733
"Patients generally feel well aside from their arthritis symptoms."]
victims had had the Standard of Care
30 days of IV ceftriaxone.
So, this was a Standard of Care study
which shows that: "the Standard of Care
was not enough IV antibiotics and needs
to be adjusted upwards," which is what
Brian Fallon did:
http://www.actionlyme.org/FALLON_DANGEROUS_TERRORIST.htm
In 1989, IDSA reported that "the treatment
endpoint for this meningitis is unknown":
http://www.actionlyme.org/CHP_9_IDSA_REVIEWS.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=%28Lyme[All+Fields]+OR+%28%28%22borrelia%22[MeSH+Terms]+OR+borrelia[Text+Word]%29+AND+%22Rev+Infect+Dis%22[Journal]%29%29+AND+%22Rev+Infect+Dis%22[Journal]+AND+%28%28%221989/01/01%22[PDAT]+:+%221989/12/31%22[PDAT]%29+AND+English[lang]%29&WebEnv=0dZWjrpgoutusq4kzWLa3apqObIfmtoFiPQP-QbGFTOC9Z6S-JmHQZN6cu15lDrgbhNLLDrSPmoMJmf@25631EEC6FE066A0_0067SID&WebEnvRq=1
The reason for the choice of intravenous
antibiotics was because it was known
all along that spirochetes are neurotropic:
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRAIN_PERMANENT.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/RICOCHRON.htm
The 30 Days of IV Ceftriaxone was
arbitrary in the first place, and was
based on the assumed dividing time
of the spirochetes.
No one knows why Allen Steere treats
and re-treats his HLA-linked bad-knee
patients with not only IV ceftriaxone, but
repeatedly with other antimicrobials:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/113383826/PDFSTART?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Maybe we could get the Forbes dude
to investigate.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/lymecryme/signatures?page=38
Name: Thomas Hennessy Jr. on May 6, 2010
Comments: my life has been destroyed by chronic lyme disease. we need
help. we need integrity and honesty in government and medicine, and
insurance. and sadly, i don't think we are seeing integrity anywhere
along the line. TMH
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