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Ventricular tachycardia associated with Lyme carditis

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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