Cardiac damage in polymyositis associated with antibodies to tissue ribonucleoproteins.
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Cardiac damage in polymyositis associated with antibodies to tissue ribonucleoproteins.
Cardiac damage, consisting of mild diffuse myocarditis or severe inflammation and fibrosis of the conduction system or both, occurs in more than 70% of patients with idiopathic polymyositis. The lesions are strikingly similar to those detected in the infants of mothers with connective tissue diseases. In these infants the damage is associated with the transplacental passage of a maternal antibo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1987
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.57.2.176