The Prognostic Value of Cardiac Axis Deviation in Systemic Sclerosis-related Pulmonary Hypertension.

Justin K LuiRuchika A SanganiClara A ChenAndreea M BujorMarcin A TrojanowskiDeepa M GopalMichael P LaValleyRenda Soylemez WienerElizabeth S Klings

Published in: Arthritis care & research (2021)

RAD and LAD reflect structural cardiac abnormalities and are associated with poor prognosis in patients with SSc-PH. These findings support the importance of electrocardiography, an inexpensive, widely available non-invasive test, in risk stratification.

Keyphrases

systemic sclerosis
poor prognosis
interstitial lung disease
pulmonary hypertension
long non coding rna
left ventricular
dna damage
dna repair
drug induced