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Cardiac involvement in chronic polymyositis.
This is a report of a 30-year-old male patient with a six-year history of chronic polymyositis. There was no family history of muscular or cardiac disease. Three years after the onset of the illness the patient developed congestive cardiac failure with evidence of complete heart block. Treatment with steroids failed to arrest the course of the disease. Necropsy showed abnormalities in the proxi...
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Cardiac damage, consisting of mild diffuse myocarditis or severe inflammation and fibrosis of the conduction system or both, occurs in more than 70% of patients with idiopathic polymyositis. The lesions are strikingly similar to those detected in the infants of mothers with connective tissue diseases. In these infants the damage is associated with the transplacental passage of a maternal antibo...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.36.6.575