Dilated myocardial disease as sequela of chronic Lyme carditis
Wunderlich, E.; Graf, A.; Thess, G.; Foelske, H.
Zeitschrift für Kardiologie 79(8): 599-600
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0300-5860 PMID: 2220017 Document Number: 350905
A report is given on a 39-year-old man, who developed, after a tick bite, erythema, progressing symptoms and, after 3 years, showed the typical clinical and echocardiographic signs of a dilative cardiomyopathy. A serological test for Lyme Borreliosis was positive. Most of the symptoms disappeared after high-dose penicillin therapy.