Silent myocarditis in systemic sclerosis detected by cardiovascular magnetic resonance using Lake Louise criteria.
Sophie I MavrogeniLoukia KoutsogeorgopoulouGeorgia KarabelaEfthymios StavropoulosGikas KatsifisJohn RaftakisSotiris PlastirasMichel NoutsiasGeorge Markousis-MavrogenisGenovefa KolovouPublished in: BMC cardiovascular disorders (2017)
Silent myocarditis may be diagnosed using the Lake Louise paper criteria in SSc patients without cardiac symptoms, has no correlation with blood inflammatory indices, cardiac troponin or disease characteristics. CMR is a promising tool to diagnose silent myocarditis in SSc and monitor the response to immunosuppressive treatment.
Keyphrases
- systemic sclerosis
- magnetic resonance
- interstitial lung disease
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- peritoneal dialysis
- oxidative stress
- left ventricular
- heart failure
- rheumatoid arthritis
- computed tomography
- water quality
- contrast enhanced
- atrial fibrillation
- smoking cessation
- idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis