[Cardiac manifestations of Lyme disease. Apropos of a case]

Ann Cardiol Angeiol (Paris). 1989 Feb;38(2):87-90.
[Article in French]

Abstract

A new case of heart involvement in Lyme's disease is reported. Its originality lies in its strictly isolated nature, therefore revealing the disease; in its typical picture of myocardopericarditis combining, in various stages, infra-hissian conduction disorders, bouts of left ventricular insufficiency, pseudoischemic repolarisation disorders and finally a moderate pericardial shift; in the demonstration, during two successive heart explorations by NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance), of a diffuse myocardial hypertrophy, subsiding in time, as the other symptoms of this patient.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / etiology
  • Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / etiology
  • Heart Diseases / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Lyme Disease / complications*
  • Male
  • Pericardial Effusion / etiology