Acute heart failure from lyme carditis

Circ Heart Fail. 2012 Mar 1;5(2):e24-6. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.111.965533.

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 types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Biopsy
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Echocardiography
  • Female
  • Heart Failure / diagnosis
  • Heart Failure / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Lyme Disease / complications*
  • Lyme Disease / diagnosis
  • Middle Aged
  • Myocarditis / complications*
  • Myocarditis / diagnosis
  • Myocardium / pathology*