Elena Frid MD PC

​Neuroinfectious / Tick Borne Diseases

• Chronic Neurologic Manifestations of Lyme Disease

• Evidence assessments and guideline recommendations in Lyme disease: the clinical management of known tick bites, erythema migrans rashes and persistent disease​

• Mechanisms of Thrombocytopenia in Tick-Borne Diseases

• Babesia microti: from Mice to Ticks to an Increasing Number of Highly Susceptible Humans

• Blood smear analysis in babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, relapsing fever, malaria, and Chagas disease

• Bartonella henselae Bloodstream Infection  in a Boy With Pediatric Acute-Onset  Neuropsychiatric Syndrome

• Intruders below the Radar Molecular Pathogenesis of Bartonella spp.

• Bartonellosis, One Health and all creatures great and small

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Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric

• Therapeutic Plasma Apheresis as a Treatment for 35 Severely Ill Children and Adolescents with Pediatric Autoimmune Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with Streptococcal infections treated successfully

• Therapeutic plasma exchange and intravenous immunoglobulin for obsessive-compulsive disorder and tic disorders in childhood

• Treatment of PANS with IVIG-Plasmapheresis

• Modifying the PANDAS criteria to describe PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) 

• Improvement of psychiatric symptoms in youth following resolution of sinusitis

• IVIG treatment of autoimmune encephalopathy in children with autism

• Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infection treated successfully with a course of oral antibiotics

• Bartonella henselae Bloodstream Infection  in a Boy With Pediatric Acute-Onset  Neuropsychiatric Syndrome

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Infections Induced Autoimmune Disorders

• A clinical approach to diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis

• ​Plasma exchange therapy in CIDP article

• Abnormal brain metabolism on FDG-PETCT in a common early finding in autoimmune encephalitis

• Autoimmune encephalitis-paving the way for early diagnosis

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Neurodegenerative

• Sub-acute Parkinsonism as a complication of Lyme disease