Abstract
Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and systemic sclerosis (SSc) commonly involve the cardiovascular system, and are associated with high morbidity and mortality. Mechanisms of cardiovascular disease (CVD) involvement in these clinical entities are not fully understood. Furthermore, little is known about myocardial structure and function in these inflammatory arthropathies. Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is a tool for noninvasive evaluation of myocardial fibrosis that has the advantage over other imaging techniques of being able to directly visualise both ischaemic and nonischaemic patterns of injury, and has prognostic significance. The purpose of this study was to assess the frequency and pattern of LGE in RA, SLE and SSc patients without any known CVD using CMR and to determine its relation to disease duration, vascular function (aortic distensibility; pulse wave velocity) and left ventricular
Highlights
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and systemic sclerosis (SSc) commonly involve the cardiovascular system, and are associated with high morbidity and mortality
Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is a tool for noninvasive evaluation of myocardial fibrosis that has the advantage over other imaging techniques of being able to directly visualise both ischaemic and nonischaemic patterns of injury, and has prognostic significance
LGE was found to occur in 46% of RA, 31% of SLE and 50% of SSc patients compared to 9% of normal controls and 21% of controls with CVRFs (p
Summary
Myocardial tissue characterisation with late gadolinium enhancement in rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and systemic sclerosis. Ntobeko A Ntusi1*, Jane M Francis, Paul M Matthews, Paul B Wordsworth, Stefan Neubauer, Theodoros Karamitsos. From 16th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions San Francisco, CA, USA. From 16th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions San Francisco, CA, USA. 31 January - 3 February 2013
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