Coronary arteritis complicating rheumatoid arthritis.
- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Elsevier in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
- Vol. 45 (11) , 963-965
- https://doi.org/10.1136/ard.45.11.963
Abstract
The case is described of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who developed heart failure and vasculitis and died of a myocardial infarction. Autopsy showed vasculitis of several major epicardial coronary arteries. Coronary arteritis in a patient with RA is seldom diagnosed during their lifetime but should be suspected when such a patient develops ischaemic heart disease.Keywords
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