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Aortic Thrombus in Severe Disseminated Lyme Disease

Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases
Lyme carditis with atrioventricular dissociation is a rare yet well-recognized complication of disseminated Lyme disease. Other cardiac and noncardiovascular conditions have been reported with disseminated Lyme disease.
Benjamin Mancini, Francois Kaleta, Eric Zimmerman, Hakim Uqdah, Abdulrhman Elnaggar, Michael Pfeiffer   +5 more
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Lyme Disease among Patients at an Ambulatory Unit in a Highly Endemic Country: Lithuania

Medicina, 2021
Background and objectives: Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in Europe, caused by the spirocheta bacteria of Borrelia burgdorferi. Several genospecies of B. burgdorferi are pathogenic to humans. B.
Agnė Petrulionienė, Daiva Radzišauskienė, Algimantas Paulauskas, Algirdas Venalis   +3 more
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Lyme carditis and atrioventricular block [PDF]

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2018
Lyme disease is a tick-borne bacterial infection (mainly Borrelia burgdorferi ) with endemic regions predominantly along the Canada–United States border. In 2016, 987 cases of Lyme disease were reported in Canada.[1][1] The heart is involved in up to 10% of Lyme disease cases, with the ...
Douglas, Wan, Adrian, Baranchuk
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Lyme Endocarditis as an Emerging Infectious Disease: A Review of the Literature

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Lyme endocarditis is extremely rare manifestation of Lyme disease. The clinical manifestations of Lyme endocarditis are non-specific and can be very challenging diagnosis to make when it is the only manifestation of the disease.
Aleksandra Nikolić, Aleksandra Nikolić, Darko Boljević, Milovan Bojić, Milovan Bojić, Stefan Veljković, Dragana Vuković, Bianca Paglietti, Jelena Micić, Salvatore Rubino   +9 more
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Heart block and Lyme carditis [PDF]

QJM, 2014
A 19-year-old male with no past medical history presented to our emergency department with an episode of syncope while walking. The patient denied any history of chest pain, shortness of breath or previous similar episodes. The physical examination was significant for a heart rate of 33 and an erythema migrans rash on the abdomen (Figure 1 …
G, Rojas-Marte, S, Chadha, B, Topi, G, Hollander, J, Shani   +4 more
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A Case of Lyme Carditis Presenting with Atrial Fibrillation

Case Reports in Cardiology, 2018
We report a case of a 20-year-old man who presented to our institution with a new arrhythmia on a routine EKG. Serial EKG tracings revealed various abnormal rhythms such as episodes of atrial fibrillation, profound first degree AV block, and type I ...
Peter J. Kennel, Melvin Parasram, Daniel Lu, Diane Zisa, Samuel Chung, Samuel Freedman, Katherine Knorr, Timothy Donahoe, Steven M. Markowitz, Hadi Halazun   +9 more
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BB0172, a Borrelia burgdorferi Outer Membrane Protein That Binds Integrin Α3Β1 [PDF]

, 2013
Lyme disease is a multisystemic disorder caused by Borrelia burgdorferi infection. Upon infection, some B. burgdorferi genes are upregulated, including members of the microbial surface components recognizing adhesive matrix molecule (MSCRAMM) protein ...
Antonara S, Arnaout MA, Askari JA, Bano-Polo M, Behera AK, Bernardo A, Bjerketorp J, Brown EL, Bryksin AV, Byrne MF, Castaman G, Coburn J, Coburn J, Coburn J, Coburn J, Cserzo M, DiPersio CM, Dulabon L, Emsley J, Esteve-Gassent MD, Fikrig E, Fischer JR, Glasner J, Gross DM, Guo BP, Hedin LE, Hessa T, Hessa T, Hirokawa T, Kenedy MR, Kiefer H, Kim JH, Kreidberg JA, Kreidberg JA, Loftus JC, Martinez-Gil L, Martinez-Gil L, Martinez-Gil L, Martinez-Gil L, Nilsson M, Nishio K, Pikas DS, Pimanda JE, Pinto AF, Plow EF, Ponting CP, Porter S, Probert WS, Raibaud S, Ruoslahti E, Saaf A, Sadler JE, Seshu J, Skare JT, Takada Y, Takagi J, Tamborero S, Vilar M, Xie L, Zheng X, Zheng X   +60 more
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Lyme Disease—An Unusual Cause of a Mitral Valve Endocarditis

Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, 2018
Lyme disease is a tick-borne infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi. Cardiac manifestations are rare, occurring in 0.5% to 10% of patients. Lyme carditis and atrioventricular block are established manifestations of Lyme disease.
Benish Fatima, MD, M. Rizwan Sohail, MD, Hartzell V. Schaff, MD   +2 more
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Risk factors for Lyme disease stage and manifestation using electronic health records

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Little is known about risk factors for early (e.g., erythema migrans) and disseminated Lyme disease manifestations, such as arthritis, neurological complications, and carditis.
Katherine A. Moon, Jonathan S. Pollak, Melissa N. Poulsen, Christopher D. Heaney, Annemarie G. Hirsch, Brian S. Schwartz   +5 more
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Lyme carditis presenting with an atypical rash [PDF]

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2020
See related articles at [[www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.191279][2]][2] and [[www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.191194][3]][3] A 56-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a new well-defined erythematous patch on her right clavicular region ([Figure 1][3]), myalgia ...
Dennys, Franco-Avecilla, Cynthia, Yeung, Adrian, Baranchuk   +2 more
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