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C ardiac pathology is common in patients with systemic lupus erythematous (SLE).1-6 The pathological involvement includes pericarditis with or without effusion; myocarditis or cardiomyopathy, sometimes with involvement of the conduction system; and myocardial infarction secondary to coronary arteritis, or, more often, atherosclerosis. Left ventricular hypertrophy and left atrial dilatation ofte...

TOPIC: Cardiovascular Disease TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Lyme disease (LD) is the most common tick-borne in US. Cardiac involvement occurs up to 8% of untreated cases. (1) Even though only eleven cases fatal carditis (LC) were reported worldwide between 1985 and 2019, it can be life-threatening. (2) We present a rare case LC leading cardiac arrest who was successf...

Herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 induced acute and chronic cardiac damage in suckling and weaning mice after intranasal inoculation. Signs of virus replication were detected by light, immunofluorescent, and electron microscopy techniques. Virtually all of the cardiac tissues appeared to be susceptible to herpes simplex virus. The myocardium, however, was most regularly affected. The viral les...

It is well recognized that a soft first heart sound is frequently found in rheumatic heart disease in children. When this has been marked it has been presumed that a severe degree of carditis existed. It is the purpose of this paper to point out certain relationships regarding the soft first heart sound and the accentuated first sound in rheumatic fever and discuss the reasons for their occurre...

Lyme carditis occurs in 1.5%-10% untreated patients infected with Borrelia burgdorferi United States and usually manifests as varying degrees of atrioventricular (AV) block, myopericarditis, degenerative valve disease. Several cases junctional tachycardia have been reported children disease, but there not any the adult population. Here, we report a case accelerated 42-year-old woman carditis. T...