Acute heart failure from lyme carditis. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Carditis can complicate Lyme disease in an estimated <5% of cases, but cardiogenic shock is rare. We report a case of severe biventricular heart failure as a manifestation of a Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction in a patient with early Lyme disease following treatment with ceftriaxone.

publication date

  • March 1, 2012

Research

keywords

  • Heart Failure
  • Lyme Disease
  • Myocarditis
  • Myocardium

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3311053

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84860808886

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.111.965533

PubMed ID

  • 22438525

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 5

issue

  • 2