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Abstracts tagged "myocardial involvement and systemic sclerosis"

  • Abstract Number: 846 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016

    Progression of Left Ventricular Myocardial Dysfunction in Systemic Sclerosis: Using Speckle Tracking Strain Echocardiography to Identify Patients at Risk

    Susanne Van Wijngaarden1, Samira Ben Said- Bouyeri2, Maarten K. Ninaber3, J.J. Bax1, V. Delgado1, Jeska K. de Vries-Bouwstra4 and Nina Ajmone Marsan1, 1Heart and Lung Center, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, 2Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, 3Heart and Lung Center; Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, 4Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

    Background/Purpose: Cardiac involvement is a main cause of mortality in systemic sclerosis, although reported prevalence of cardiac involvement is low and detection of cardiac involvement…
  • Abstract Number: 1883 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015

    Association of Myocardial Abnormalities with  Disease Characteristic and Brain Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) in Systemic Sclerosis without Cardiac Symptoms As Assessed Using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging; A Prospective Multi Center Study

    Kaita Sugiyama1, Hitomi Kobayashi2, Yasuyuki Kobayashi3, Yosuke Nagasawa1, Natsumi Ikumi4, Takamasa Nozaki5, Hirotake Inomata1, Hidetaka Shiraiwa6, Hiromi Karasawa6, Noboru Kitamura7, Mitsuhiro Iwata5, Yoshihiro Matsukawa6 and Masami Takei5, 1Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, 2Hematology and Rheumatology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, 3Advanced Biomedical Imaging Informatics, St.Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan, 4Nihon University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Japan, 5Division of Hematology and Rheumatology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, 6Division of Heamatology and Rheumatology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, 7NIhon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Background/Purpose: In the majority of SSc patients, however, cardiac involvement often remains subclinical. Primary myocardial abnomalities are characterized by fibrosis. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) can…
  • Abstract Number: 1892 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015

    Impact of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging with T1 Mapping and Multi-b Value Diffusion-Weighted Sequences in Systemic Sclerosis for the Assessment of Myocardial Microscopic Fibrosis and Perfusion

    Benjamin Terrier1, Hervé Gouya2, Alice Berezne1, Alexis Regent3, Pascal Cohen1, Loïc Guillevin4, Claire Le Jeunne5, Paul Legmann2, Olivier Vignaux6 and Luc Mouthon7, 1Internal Medicine, National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France, 2AP-HP Cochin Hospital, Department of Radiology B, Paris, France, 3Service de médecine interne, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France, 4Internal Medicine, Hopital Cochin, Paris, France, 5Department of Internal Medicine, Hotel-Dieu Hospital, AP-HP, Paris, Paris, France, 6Radiology, Cochin University Hospital, Paris, France, 7Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Cochin Hospital, Referent Center for Necrotizing Vasculitis and Systemic Sclerosis, Paris-Descartes University, AP-HP, Paris, France

    Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a complex disease associating vasculopathy, cutaneous and visceral fibrosis, and autoimmunity. Myocardial microscopic fibrosis may occur and potentially lead to…
  • Abstract Number: 1897 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015

    Fragmented Qrs Patterns Do Not Correlate with the Degree of Lung and Skin Involvement in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis

    Didem Uzunaslan1, Caner Saygin1, Mehmet Kostek2, Mehmet Ozdemir2, Tufan Torun2, Servet Altay3 and Gulen Hatemi4, 1Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 2Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, 3Edirne Community Hospital, Edirne, Turkey, 4Rheumatology, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey

    Background/Purpose: Cardiac involvement is a common subclinical feature of systemic sclerosis (SSc) and results from the widespread fibrosis observed during disease course. Fragmented QRS (fQRS)…
  • Abstract Number: 738 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014

    Troponin T as a Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarker of Primary Cardiac Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis

    Silvia Laura Bosello, Giacomo De Luca, Federico Parisi, Giorgia Berardi, Manuela Rucco, Giovanni Canestrari and Gianfranco Ferraccioli, Division of Rheumatology, Institute of Rheumatology and Affine Sciences, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

    Background/Purpose .Heart involvement is common in Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), even if often clinically silent, and represents one of the leading cause of death in these…
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