Focal scleroderma and severe cardiomyopathy. Patient report and brief review
| Autor: | Zia Q. Farooki, Flossie Cohen, Chung-Ho Chang, Ellen Moore |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Cardiomyopathy
Dilated medicine.medical_specialty Pathology integumentary system business.industry Cardiomyopathy Infant medicine.disease Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate Scleroderma Scleroderma Localized Prednisone Heart failure Internal medicine Cardiology Medicine Rheumatoid factor Humans Female Patient report skin and connective tissue diseases business Localized Scleroderma medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | American journal of diseases of children (1960). 145(2) |
| ISSN: | 0002-922X |
| Popis: | • A 21-month-old infant presented with simultaneous localized scleroderma and severe cardiomyopathy with heart failure. Cardiac abnormalities and serological changes (positive rheumatoid factor assay, elevated IgM and IgG levels, and elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate) reverted to normal with prednisone therapy, and there was substantial, though incomplete, resolution of her skin changes during the same period. To our knowledge, this is the first patient with definite, clinically significant cardiac involvement associated with focal scleroderma. The possibility of internal organ involvement, including cardiac involvement, must be considered with focal scleroderma as well as with progressive systemic sclerosis. ( AJDC . 1991;145:229-231) |
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