Magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of acute Lyme carditis.
Lyme disease is a multisystem disease, which can involve the heart causing myopericarditis. We describe 1 patient with serological and histological evidence of Lyme borreliosis and demonstration of pathologic myocardial signal enhancement in magnetic resonance imaging.
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2nd Department of Internal Medicine, University of Vienna, Austria.
Bergler-Klein
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Stanek
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Ullrich
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Glogar
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000175:diagnosis*