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Suspected inflammatory cardiomyopathy. Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in endomyocardial biopsies with positive serological evidence.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Global seroprevalence and sociodemographic characteristics ofBMJ global health · 2022Pooled it
- Long-term Cardiac Sequelae in Lyme Carditis: A Review.Current cardiology reviews · 2026Review
- Acute Myocarditis and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathies: Insights From Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Findings.Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) · 2025Review
- Lyme Carditis: From Pathophysiology to Clinical Management.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Implication of microRNA as a potential biomarker of myocarditis.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2022Article
- Distinct Microbial Communities in Dilated Cardiomyopathy Explanted Hearts Are Associated With Different Myocardial Rejection Outcomes.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021Article
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- Lyme carditis--diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2015Review
- Functional and biochemical characteristics of mitochondrial fractions from rat liver in cold-induced oxidative stress.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2004Article
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Abstract
backgroundCardiac involvement in Lyme disease, caused by the tick-borne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, has been reported to occur in 0.3-4 % of infected patients in Europe. Cardiac manifestations may include conduction disturbances, and also myocarditis, pericarditis, and left ventricular dysfunction. We investigated the prevalence of B. burgdorferi DNA in endomyocardial biopsies from patients with suspected inflammatory heart disease and positive serology for B. burgdorferi. METHODS AND
resultsIn 64 patients, endomyocardial biopsies were taken after exclusion of coronary heart disease by coronary angiography, and investigated with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the presence of B. burgdorferi and cardiotropic viruses. B. burgdorferi DNA was not detected in any of the endomyocardial biopsies. Viruses, particularly parvovirus B19, were detected as infectious agents in 19 (30 %) patients.
conclusionThe results of our study demonstrate that PCR analysis of endomyocardial biopsies from patients with suspected inflammatory heart disease, including individuals with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and positive serology for B. burgdorferi, did not reveal the B. burgdorferi genome in any biopsy sample.
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