1.
Rev Med Suisse
; 11(464): 563-6, 568, 2015 Mar 04.
Article
in French
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25924252
ABSTRACT
Untreated Lyme disease can affect the heart in up to 10% of patients. Its clinical outcome and severity vary, ranging from asymptomatic minor conduction disturbances to potentially fatal arrhythmias and severe heart failure. A history of a tick bite or a typical previous skin lesion (Erythema migrans) may be absent; clinicians should therefore keep a low threshold of suspicion when facing cardiac manifestations in a patient potentially exposed to the disease in endemic areas. We report the case of a patient with Lyme carditis expressed by variable degrees of atrio-ventricular block and review the literature.
Subject(s)
Borrelia burgdorferi , Lyme Disease , Myocarditis/microbiology , Adult , Humans , Lyme Disease/diagnosis , Lyme Disease/drug therapy , Male , Myocarditis/diagnosis , Myocarditis/drug therapy
2.
Int J Cardiol
; 165(3): 589, 2013 May 25.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22805551