Lyme Research and Practice
Dr. Daniel Cameron  
Cardiac death
The disappointing long-term sequelae of chronic Lyme disease is best understood by examination of case histories of the Ipswich, Massachusetts cohort.[1] One Lyme disease patient died despite having been prescribed two courses of intravenous antibiotics. Autopsy revealed a spirochete in the cortex and another spirochete was exterior to a leptomeningeal vessel. A second patient progressed to complete heart block requiring a pacemaker despite both oral and intravenous antibiotic.

 

References

1. Shadick NA, Phillips CB, Sangha O, Logigian EL, Kaplan RF, Wright EA, Fossel AH, Fossel K, Berardi V, Lew RA, Liang MH. Musculoskeletal and neurologic outcomes in patients with previously treated Lyme disease. Ann Intern Med. 1999 Dec 21;131(12):919-26.
   

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