Rapid complete atrioventricular heart block reversal due to Lyme carditis

A 49-year-old man, who presented with new onset dyspnea on exertion and fatigue without clear history of a typical erythema migrans rash, was found to have complete atrioventricular (AV) heart block with positive serology for Lyme disease. A complete stepwise reversal of the AV block was achieved sh...

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Autores principales: Bourji, Khalil I., Newsome, T., Meyerhoff, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6116299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30181836
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2018.1503918
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description A 49-year-old man, who presented with new onset dyspnea on exertion and fatigue without clear history of a typical erythema migrans rash, was found to have complete atrioventricular (AV) heart block with positive serology for Lyme disease. A complete stepwise reversal of the AV block was achieved shortly after the initiation of intravenous antibiotic treatment.
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spelling pubmed-61162992018-09-04 Rapid complete atrioventricular heart block reversal due to Lyme carditis Bourji, Khalil I. Newsome, T. Meyerhoff, John J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Case Report A 49-year-old man, who presented with new onset dyspnea on exertion and fatigue without clear history of a typical erythema migrans rash, was found to have complete atrioventricular (AV) heart block with positive serology for Lyme disease. A complete stepwise reversal of the AV block was achieved shortly after the initiation of intravenous antibiotic treatment. Taylor & Francis 2018-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6116299/ /pubmed/30181836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2018.1503918 Text en © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of Greater Baltimore Medical Center http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Rapid complete atrioventricular heart block reversal due to Lyme carditis
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title_full_unstemmed Rapid complete atrioventricular heart block reversal due to Lyme carditis
title_short Rapid complete atrioventricular heart block reversal due to Lyme carditis
title_sort rapid complete atrioventricular heart block reversal due to lyme carditis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6116299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30181836
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2018.1503918
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