Background: Brucellosis pericarditis is an extremely rare involvement of the cardiovascular system with Brucella species that has worldwide distribution and is endemic in many provinces of Iran. Case presentation: The present report describes an exceptional case of pericardial involvement by Brucella melitensis in a 50- year-old woman. The patient presented with night sweats, mild fever, wei...

kawasaki disease (kd) is an inflammatory multiorgan disease of unknown etiology. the most dramatic organ involved is the heart. there were a few studies about cardiac involvement and sterile pyuria. this study guides to determine if sterile pyuria is associated with coronary artery aneurysm (caa) in kd patients and to consider it as a predicting factor for coronary artery involvement. forty sev...

OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency and type of cardiac manifestations in children with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and investigate whether cardiac involvement of SLE in children was associated with any autoantibody pattern. METHODS Retrospective analysis of the medical records of all children with SLE (31 patients) seen between January 1984 and January 1994 by the paediatric rheumat...

Background While cardiac involvement including heart failure represents the first cause of mortality in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IM), subclinical alterations may be largely underdiagnosed by conventional tests. CMR T1 mapping may provide more sensitive diagnostic markers of cardiac involvement in both acute and chronic phases in IM irrespective of cardiac function or late gadolinium ...

Abstract Background Previous reports have demonstrated electrocardiographic and echocardiographic abnormalities consistent with early-stage cardiomyopathy in patients creatine transporter (CrT) deficiency, but cardiac involvement has never been accurately characterized. Purpose To investigate the phenotype associated deficiency a murine transgenic model syndrome (CDS). Methods Wild type CrT−/y ...