An Unusual Case of Pericardial Effusion Requiring Pericardiocentesis in a Newly Diagnosed Lyme Disease Patient in Nigeria: A Case Report and Literature

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Introduction Cardiac involvement in Lyme disease is most commonly manifested as atrioventricular conduction disease; pericardial involvement, though far less common, is increasingly recognized and can occasionally be hemodynamically significant. Case Presentation We report the case of a 63-year-old woman who presented for pre-operative assessment before a planned left total knee repla...

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• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Electrocardiography
• Endocarditis, Bacterial
• Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome
• Myocarditis
• Practice Guidelines as Topic
• Switzerland

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Literature Corpus work

982fb753-030b-5d0d-8231-c8d59fed28a8

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-10744404/v1