Cardiac involvement in chronic polymyositis.
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Cardiac involvement in chronic polymyositis.
This is a report of a 30-year-old male patient with a six-year history of chronic polymyositis. There was no family history of muscular or cardiac disease. Three years after the onset of the illness the patient developed congestive cardiac failure with evidence of complete heart block. Treatment with steroids failed to arrest the course of the disease. Necropsy showed abnormalities in the proxi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1971
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.33.3.416