title: [Dilated myocardial disease as sequela of chronic Lyme carditis].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Leitklinik für Herz-Kreislauf-Krankheiten des Bezirkes Dresden.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wunderlich
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Graf
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Thess
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Foelske
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015748:Borrelia burgdorferi Group / Q000276:immunology; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D010406:Penicillins / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D010406:Penicillins
vernacular_title: Dilatative Herzmuskelerkrankung als Folge einer chronischen Lyme-Karditis.