Whos At Risk For Myocarditis
Health Encyclopedia: Relapsing Fever
Tick-borne relapsing fever, Louse-borne relapsing fever
Treatment
Treatment involves antibiotics, most often tetracycline, doxycycline, or penicillin.
Support Groups
Expectations (prognosis)
The death rate for untreated LBRF ranges from 10-70%. In TBRF, it is 4-10%. With early treatment, the death rate is reduced. Those who have developed coma, myocarditis, liver problems, and pneumonia have at higher risk of death.
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Causes of Cardiac Enlargement
...heart attack, long-term alcohol abuse, and heart muscle inflammation. Heart muscle inflammation, or myocarditis, is sometimes of unknown cause and is often associated with a viral infection or ... Read more »Congestive Heart Failure Risk Factors
...those treated with chemotherapies such as doxorubicin. Newer cancer advances may reduce this risk.Acute myocarditis. This rare viral infection involves the heart muscle and can produce temporary... Read more »Type 2 Diabetes: Screening Tests - Fasting Plasma Glucose
...the diagnosis of heart disease, from congenital heart disease in infants to myocardial infarction and myocarditis in adults. Several different types of electrocardiogram exist.Screening for Kidney... Read more »Congestive Heart Failure Diagnosis
...extensively to diagnose heart disease, from congenital heart disease in infants to myocardial infarction and myocarditis in adults. There are several different types of... Read more »Travel to Developing Countries: Infectious Diseases
...can include focal skin lesion, fever, anorexia, lymph node swelling, spleen and liver enlargement, myocarditis. Symptoms that may occur years or decades later include dementia, cardiomyopathy,... Read more »Images
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