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Cardiac involvement in rheumatoid disease.
The relationship between joint inflammation and heart disease was first suggested by Bouillaud in 1836. In 1891, Charcot described endocarditis and pericarditis in ‘chronic rheumatism’, differentiating cardiac disease in rheumatic fever (rheumatic heart disease) from that in other forms of rheumatism (rheumatoid heart disease (RHD)). It is now clear that cardiac pathology is common in rheumatoi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medicine
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1470-2118,1473-4893
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.1-1-18