title: Common form of Lyme borreliosis carditis--complete heart block with syncope: report on 3 cases.
abstract: Third degree atrioventricular (AV) heart block with severe Adams-Stokes attacks in 3 patients with Lyme borreliosis is described. All patients had similar clinical manifestations: previously healthy, they experience syncope as an abrupt onset of the disease. Data on skin changes--erythema migrans--was subsequently obtained, although the patients did not recall being bitten by a tick. Diagnoses were based on clinical manifestations and on positive serologic test results to borrelia. Following AV block returned to sinus rhythm with normal AV conduction in all patients.
authors.affiliation: University Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Vasiljević
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dmitrović
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Naumović
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ostojić
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Radosavljević
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karadzić
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Prostran
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Colić
mesh_terms: D000219:Adams-Stokes Syndrome / Q000209:etiology; D000328:Adult; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D015748:Borrelia burgdorferi Group / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006327:Heart Block / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000209:etiology*; D013575:Syncope / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents