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Complete heart block in an adolescent caused by Lyme disease. A common--and reversible--disorder
A J Doorey1, E Schneider, A E Bacon
1Section of Cardiology, Medical Center of Delaware.
Delaware Medical Journal
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 20-year-old University of Delaware student developed a vague systemic disorder one week after camping in a Maryland state park known to be endemic with the tick Ixodes dammini, the vector for Lyme Disease. Light-headedness developed and an electrocardiogram revealed complete heart block. Lyme Disease was confirmed by the characteristic erythema migrans rash and Lyme serologies.