Echocardiographic study of juvenile dermatomyositis patients: new insights from speckle-tracking-derived strain.
Maria de Fátima Rodrigues DinizKatia Tomie KozuAdriana Maluf EliasAlessandro Cavalcanti LianzaKaren Saori Shiraishi SawamuraCarolina Rocha Brito MenezesJuliana Caires de Oliveira Achili FerreiraClovis Artur SilvaGabriela Nunes LealPublished in: Clinical rheumatology (2020)
• Serious cardiac involvement is rare but has been associated with death in juvenile dermatomyositis. • Two-dimensional speckle tracking stands out for the identification of subclinical myocardial compromise in juvenile dermatomyositis. • Longitudinal strain impairment is associated with disease activity and cumulative damage, whereas circumferential strain impairment is associated exclusively with cumulative damage.
Keyphrases
- disease activity
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- rheumatoid arthritis
- rheumatoid arthritis patients
- interstitial lung disease
- ankylosing spondylitis
- left ventricular
- ejection fraction
- juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- end stage renal disease
- oxidative stress
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- systemic sclerosis
- left atrial
- cross sectional