A 15-Year-Old Boy With Severe Cardiac Problems Associated With Lyme Disease
Dr. Cameron believes that one of the best ways to understand Lyme disease is by reviewing actual clinical cases. In this episode of the Inside Lyme Podcast, he discusses a 15-year-old boy who developed severe cardiac complications associated with Lyme disease.
Nawrocki and colleagues first described this case in the Air Medical Journal in 2018.
The boy suddenly lost consciousness. His friends immediately called 911 but were unsure how long he had been unconscious. When emergency medical personnel arrived, the boy appeared pale and had a heart rate of 300 beats per minute.
He required synchronized cardioversion in the field. The patient was then flown by helicopter to a cardiac intensive care unit (ICU) at a children’s tertiary care hospital. The flight crew included two specialized flight nurses.
Doctors suspected Lyme disease and began treatment with intravenous ceftriaxone. Despite treatment, the patient experienced three additional episodes of ventricular tachycardia and required cardioversion twice more.
After several days of intravenous antibiotics, the boy’s heart block gradually resolved and the temporary pacemaker was removed.
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A boy with severe cardiac Lyme disease. An Inside Lyme Podcast.
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Dr. Cameron is a Lyme disease specialist and the author of Inside Lyme: An Expert’s Guide to the Science of Lyme Disease. He has been treating adolescents and adults with Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections for more than 30 years.
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Dr. Daniel Cameron, MD, MPH
Lyme disease clinician with over 30 years of experience and past president of ILADS.
Symptoms • Testing • Coinfections • Recovery • Pediatric • Prevention
