Lyme carditis and Borrelia-associated dilated cardiomyopathy

Heart Failure Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 241-248

  Gasser, R ^a   Lercher, P ^a   Klein, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Heart; Heart failure; Myocardial; Myocarditis

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; PENICILLIN G; ROXITHROMYCIN;

ANGINA PECTORIS; AORTA ANEURYSM; AUSTRIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BRADYCARDIA; BREATHING DISORDER; HAMSTER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART PALPITATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LYME DISEASE; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PERICARDITIS; REVIEW; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA; UNITED STATES; VERTIGO;

EID: 0033049587     PISSN: 13824147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009859817705     Document Type: Review

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