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April 10, 2020

A 15-year-old boy with severe cardiac Lyme disease

Lyme Carditis: Severe Heart Rhythm Disturbance in a Teen

Lyme Carditis in a Teen: Severe Cardiac Lyme Disease In this Inside Lyme Podcast, I discuss a dramatic case of Lyme carditis in a 15-year-old boy whose infection caused life-threatening heart rhythm disturbances. By Dr. Daniel Cameron Nawrocki and colleagues first described this case in the Air Medical Journal in 2018. A 15-year-old boy experienced […]

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sick man on couch with chronic lyme disease

What Is Chronic Lyme Disease?

What Is Chronic Lyme Disease? Chronic Lyme disease refers to a multisystem illness with persistent or recurring symptoms following infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria responsible for Lyme disease. Shor and colleagues identified a broad range of symptoms, signs, and medical conditions present in patients with acute and chronic Lyme disease. These manifestations were observed

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