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Temporary decrease in heart rate in Lyme carditis during treatment with antibiotics
E P Dam1, D R Jonker, J C Hoorntje
1Department of Cardiology, Weezenlanden Hospital, Zwolle, Netherlands.
Heart (British Cardiac Society)
|September 1, 1996
Abstract:
Lyme disease is a recognised cause of atrioventricular block. In most cases the conduction disturbances are reversed by treatment with antibiotics. A 44 year old man with third degree atrioventricular block in Lyme carditis had a temporary decrease in heart rate during resolution of the heart block two days after treatment with antibiotics was started.