Is heart transplantation a valuable option in patients with diffuse systemic sclerosis and primary cardiac involvement?
Frédéric Turcotte-GosselinPierre-Yves TurgeonAlena IkicJonathan BeaudoinPhilippe JoubertMichelle DuboisPierre VoisineMario SénéchalPublished in: Clinical case reports (2019)
Systemic sclerosis patients with primary cardiac involvement can be reliably diagnosed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and are associated with a poor prognosis. This case report highlights the importance of considering heart transplantation in those patients as a lifesaving procedure.
Keyphrases
- systemic sclerosis
- poor prognosis
- interstitial lung disease
- magnetic resonance imaging
- left ventricular
- case report
- long non coding rna
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- computed tomography
- prognostic factors
- heart failure
- rheumatoid arthritis
- atrial fibrillation
- contrast enhanced
- patient reported
- diffusion weighted imaging