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The Echocardiographic Abnormalities in 52 Iraqi Patients with Rheumatoid Arithritis | ||
| Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 92-96 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Salim M. Saeed | ||
| Abstract | ||
| ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE: To study the prevalence of echocardiographic findings in unselected population of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) METHODS: Fifty two RA patients and fifty two normal healthy people assessed clinically, Echo Cardiografically, ECG, pulmonary function tests and laboratory investigations. RESULTS: Two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated significant cardiac disease in (59%) of patients in form of right ventricular dilatation (25%), left ventricular dilatation (11.5%), left atrial dilatation (3.8%), mitral valve abnormalities (11.5%)(M.V.regurgitation, M.V.thickening, M.V.prolapsed, M.V.stenosis), septal hypertrophy(5.8%), diastolic pressure dysfunction(5.8%), thick aortic calcified cusps(3.8%), aortic regurgitation(5.8%), mild pericardial effusion(13.5%), tricuspid Regurgitation (11.5%) and raised pulmonary artery pressure above 30 mmHg (3.8%).The normal healthy people had only two people one had M.V.regurgitation and the other had mild M.V.prolapse and there were no other abnormalities in (ECG) of (PFT). CONCLUSION: Wide and frequent varieties of echocardiographic cardiac abnormalities were found in an unselected population of patients with RA, using Doppler echocardiography giving different grades of severity of cardiac manifestation | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Echocardiogram; Rheumatoidarthritis; Iraq | ||
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