Active valvulitis associated with chronic rheumatic valvular disease and active myocarditis.

Valvulitis--bacterial or rheumatic?

Valvular disease in patients with active sle and clinical suspicion of acute myocarditis : assesment by cardiovascular magnetic resonance

Background Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a disease of autoinmune origin that may involve numerous internal organs of the body. It is associated with high cardiovascular morbility and mortality. The cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) provides us with a global evaluation of patients with active SLE and clinical suspicion of acute myocarditis. OBJETIVES The aim of study was the identi...

Aortic incompetence and active myocarditis in Reiter's disease.

The cardiovascular complications of Reiter's disease, rank amongst the less frequently encountered manifestations. Paronen (1948) reported clinical and electrocardiographic data on a series of 344 patients; 6-7 per cent, had findings consistent with carditis, and of these 23 patients, sixteen had myocarditis only, four had myocarditis and pericarditis, and three had isolated pericarditis. He fo...

Valvular heart disease: rheumatic or rheumatoid?

Induction of myocarditis and valvulitis in lewis rats by different epitopes of cardiac myosin and its implications in rheumatic carditis.

Immune responses against cardiac myosin and group A streptococcal M protein have been implicated in the pathogenesis of rheumatic heart disease. Although cardiac myosin is known to produce myocarditis in susceptible animals, it has never been investigated for its role in production of valvular heart disease, the most serious sequelae of group A streptococcal infection in acute rheumatic fever. ...