Author:
Trybuch Agnieszka,Tarnacka Beata
Abstract
Polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM) are rare idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). Myocardial involvement in patients with IIM is an unfavorable prognostic factor and one of the most common cause of mortality in this group of patients. The purpose of this review is the presentation of current knowledge on cardiovascular manifestations observed in IIM. Published in English data until December 2021 were selected. Clinical symptoms suggesting cardiac involvement are non-specific and require a differential diagnosis in accordance with cardiological guidelines. Troponin I is specific to cardiac injury and should be preferred to other markers to evaluate the myocardium in IIM. Abnormalities in electrocardiography are common in IIM , especially non-specific changes of ST-T segment. In standard echocardiography left ventricular diastolic dysfunction is reported frequently. New diagnostic technologies can reveal clinically silent myocardial abnormalities. However, prognostic value of subclinical impairment of myocardial function require further studies.
Subject
Immunology,Immunology and Allergy,Rheumatology
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