Brief communicationVentricular tachycardia associated with Lyme carditis
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Lyme carditis presenting with an incessant atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia masking a variable atrioventricular block
2022, HeartRhythm Case ReportsCitation Excerpt :In addition, patients often present with bradycardia. However, few cases of tachycardia are documented6–12 (Table 1). Extensive research has been done on the anatomy and electrophysiology of the AV node, which suggests the presence of a “dual” AV nodal system thought to involve 2 pathways: “fast” and “slow” pathways.5
Diagnosis not to be missed: Lyme carditis, rare but reversible cause of complete atrioventricular block
2014, Indian Heart JournalCitation Excerpt :Lyme carditis may present as complete heart block, myopericarditis, cardiomyopathy or carditis presenting as congestive heart failure.2–5 Ventricular tachycardia due to Lyme carditis unresponsive to procainamide and lignocaine but responsive to beta-blocker has been reported.6 Antibody detection remains the mainstay of laboratory support for a clinical diagnosis.
Lyme carditis: Sequential electrocardiographic changes in response to antibiotic therapy
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2008, Infectious Disease Clinics of North AmericaCitation Excerpt :It was hypothesized that these supraventricular rhythm disturbances may have been secondary to pericarditis, which was observed in 16% of patients. Rarely, ventricular and fascicular tachycardias have been reported [19,49]. Seslar and colleagues [50] reported two cases of prolongation of the corrected QT-interval, a previously unreported manifestation of Lyme carditis, which resolved after 6 to 7 weeks with 4 weeks of intravenous ceftriaxone.
Cardiac involvement in Lyme disease
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