Diagnosing Lyme Carditis Presenting With Complete Heart Block

Diagnosing self-limited conduction abnormality of Lyme carditis in absence of pathognomonic skin rash or history of tick bite is challenging but necessary to avoid placement of pacemaker particularly in young patients. High degree of clinical suspicion, rapidly progressing conduction block and promp...

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Autores principales: Samarendra, Padmaraj, Kapoor, Saloni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8383617/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34434400
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jmc3529
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spelling pubmed-83836172021-08-24 Diagnosing Lyme Carditis Presenting With Complete Heart Block Samarendra, Padmaraj Kapoor, Saloni J Med Cases Case Report Diagnosing self-limited conduction abnormality of Lyme carditis in absence of pathognomonic skin rash or history of tick bite is challenging but necessary to avoid placement of pacemaker particularly in young patients. High degree of clinical suspicion, rapidly progressing conduction block and prompt response to antibiotics may help in diagnosis. Elmer Press 2020-07 2020-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8383617/ /pubmed/34434400 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jmc3529 Text en Copyright 2020, Samarendra et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Diagnosing Lyme Carditis Presenting With Complete Heart Block
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