Lyme carditis causes complete heart block in 26-year-old man
The patient was evaluated in the emergency room with presyncope (lightheadedness, muscle weakness) and worsening fatigue. Telemetry monitoring demonstrated a “2:1 AV block alternating with complete heart block and a junctional escape rhythm in the range of 30 beats per minute,” according to Chaudhry and colleagues. [1] Doctors suspected Lyme disease and started intravenous ceftriaxone, […]
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