CARDIAC MANIFESTATIONS
Asymptomatic, transient complete heart block in a pediatric patient with Lyme disease.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19190204
Cardiac Involvement in Lyme Disease: Manifestations and Management
http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196%2812%2962775-X/abstract
Cardiac involvement in non-human primates infected with the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi http://www.nature.com/labinvest/journal/v84/n11/full/3700177a.html
Cardiac manifestations of Lyme disease: a review.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8640597
[Clinical picture of cardioborreliosis: from AV block to perimyocarditis]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8262409
Complete Heart Block as the Sole Presentation of Lyme Disease
http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=612135
Complete Heart Block in a 19 Year Old Male: Tick Tock, Tick Tock!!
http://journal.publications.chestnet.org/article.aspx?articleid=1837214
Complete heart block due to lyme carditis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12777681
[The cardiac and neurological manifestations of Lyme borreliosis in congenital first-degree AV block].
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8964203
Lyme carditis: a reversible cause of complete atrioventricular block.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21125053
Common form of Lyme borreliosis carditis–complete heart block with syncope: report on 3 cases.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8631050
Lyme borreliosis as a cause of myocarditis and heart muscle disease
http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/content/12/suppl_D/73.abstract
Persistent atrioventricular block in Lyme borreliosis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2348647
Persistent Cardiac and Urinary Tract Infections
Three Sudden Cardiac Deaths Associated with Lyme Carditis — United States, November 2012–July 2013
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6249a1.htm?mobile=nocontent&s_cid=mm6249a1_e
Notes from the Field: Update on Lyme Carditis, Groups at High Risk, and Frequency of Associated Sudden Cardiac Death — United States
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6343a4.htm?s_cid=mm6343a4_w
Total atrioventricular block following a tick bite
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17907546
Visceral Cat Scratch Disease with Endocarditis in an Immunocompetent Adult: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Visceral+Cat+Scratch+Disease+with+Endocarditis
Heart block
Hint of Lyme, an uncommon cause of syncope
http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2014/bcr-2013-201547
Lyme Carditis: An Important Cause of Reversible Heart Block
http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=702950
Lyme Carditis with Transient Complete Heart Block
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2908662/
Lyme disease presenting as heart block.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3370908
(Please remember that it is now known that a chronic condition or disease is caused by or at least contributed by a chronic infection. It isn’t always Lyme Disease so we present other studies implicating other infections.)
Blood culture-negative endocarditis in a reference center: etiologic diagnosis of 348 cases.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Tropheryma+Whipplei+Endocarditis%3A+A+28+Patient+Series