Open AccessIdentification of characteristics of overt myocarditis in adult patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies
Author(s) -
Yingxian Liu,
Ligang Fang,
Wei Chen,
Yanlin Zhu,
Xue Lin,
Yining Wang,
Li Xiao,
Qian Wang,
Zhenyu Liu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.83
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2223-3660
pISSN - 2223-3652
DOI - 10.21037/cdt.2020.03.04
Subject(s) - medicine , myocarditis , ejection fraction , cardiology , creatine kinase , troponin i , troponin , heart failure , myocardial infarction
Myocarditis is a rare complication of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs), which is usually underestimated because of limited applications of endomyocardial biopsy and cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in clinical routines.
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