Abstract
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) frequently has cardiovascular complications. Pericardial inflammation and effusion, myocardial hypertrophy, ventricular dysfunction, valvular disease and coronary atherosclerosis may result in considerable morbidity. While the pathologic findings in SLE have been well described, 1–3 the antemortem documentation of the cardiac complications has been less frequent than the postmortem findings would support. We therefore sought to study how echocardiography may improve the clinical assessment of cardiac involvement in 50 consecutive patients with SLE.
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