Cardiac pathology of systemic lupus erythematosus

ischaemic heart disease and heart failure. If untreated, lupus myocarditis rarely may lead to arrhythmia, dilated cardiomyo-pathy, cardiac failure or death.31 32 Myocarditis may be associated with skeletal myositis.33 In SLE patients with cardiac symptoms, more common causes of heart failure such as viral ................
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