858 Transoesophageal echocardiographic study in 50 patients affected by rheumatoid arthritis
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The heart in rheumatoid arthritis (rheumatoid disease)--an echocardiographic study.
IT has been known for many years that the heart may be involved in rheumatoid arthritis. Initially rheumatoid granulomata, amyloidosis, endocarditis, subacute myocarditis and constrictive pericarditis were recognised in early clinical and postmortem studies.l 2'3 More recently the echocardiogram has demonstrated pericardial effusions in up to 46 per cent of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.4'...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Echocardiography
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1525-2167
DOI: 10.1016/s1525-2167(03)90982-6