Abstract
Carditis can complicate Lyme disease in an estimated <5% of cases, and cardiogenic shock and severe cardiac arrhythmias are described with electrocardiographic abnormalities that could be suggestive of coronary manifestations. We report a case of severe persistent biventricular heart failure complicated by cardiac arrhythmias as initial manifestation of a Lyme disease developing peroperatively electrocardiographic abnormalities suggesting acute transmural myocardial infarction.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 430-433 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Journal of Clinical Anesthesia |
Volume | 35 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Keywords
- Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac/complications
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Humans
- Lyme Disease/complications
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Myocarditis/complications
- Perioperative Period
- Shock, Cardiogenic/complications