Seeks, finds, threats: Lyme disease!

Muschart, Xavier;Blommaert, Dominique
(2015) American Journal of Emergency Medicine — Vol. 307, n° 33, p. e5-e6 (2015)

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  • Muschart, XavierUCLouvain
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  • Blommaert, DominiqueUCLouvain
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(en) Lyme borreliosis is a disease commonly found in humans. Here we report the case of a young, healthy girl presenting with symptomatic first- and second-degree atrioventricular blocks secondary to cardiac myocarditis. The disappearance of the conduction anomaly after antibiotic treatment confirmed Lyme disease before the results from the serology. Therefore, when a healthy, young person suddenly presents with an atrioventricular conduction block, physicians should consider a diagnosis of Lyme disease.
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Muschart, X., & Blommaert, D. (2015). Seeks, finds, threats: Lyme disease! American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 307(33), e5-e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2014.07.019 (Original work published 2015)