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  • Lyme Carditis Presenting With Complete Heart Block in a Patient Who Received a Heart Transplant

    http://journals.lww.com/infectdis/Ab...ock.99507.aspx
    Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice:
    POST AUTHOR CORRECTIONS, 6 March 2013
    doi: 10.1097/IPC.0b013e31827ce6e3
    Case Report: PDF Only
    Lyme Carditis Presenting With Complete Heart Block in a Patient Who Received a Heart Transplant
    Wong, Darren W. MD; Apostolidou, Eirini MD; Bruno, Christopher MD
    Published Ahead-of-Print

    Abstract

    In immunocompetent patients, Lyme carditis is a well-established complication of untreated primary Lyme disease. Whether the presentation and course of Lyme disease differs in immunosuppressed patients has not been well established. There are rare case reports of Lyme disease presenting after solid organ transplantation. We describe a case of Lyme carditis in a patient who received a heart transplant presenting as complete heart block progressing to symptomatic heart failure. The patient required permanent dual-chamber pacemaker placement for cardiac synchronization; however, after treatment with intravenous ceftriaxone, she regained an intrinsic sinus rhythm. Practitioners should maintain a high index of suspicion for Lyme disease when assessing immunosuppressed patients with new-onset heart block. The classic manifestations of primary Lyme disease may be absent as was the case in this patient.

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