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Diplopia (double vision) and heart block in early-disseminated Lyme disease

In the latest issue of Mayo Clinical Proceedings, a physician from Mayo Clinic describes a 49-year-old man from Minnesota with acute-onset diplopia (double vision) and heart block in early-disseminated Lyme disease. [1] “This patient met criteria for early-disseminated Lyme disease with multiple erythema migrans lesions and evidence of cardiac and neurologic involvement,” according to Blackwell from the Department of General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic. Over the course of a month, the patient’s rash grew to cover most of his chest.