Tunisie Medicale [La]. 2004; 82 (12): 1082-1090
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ABSTRACT
Cardiac involvement is a real manifestation of spondylarthropathies and include specially aortic reguragitation an conduction troubles. We present a prospective open study of fifty patients with spondylarthropathy [responded to Amor criteria] in order to evaluate the frequency of cardiac involvement, to see its type and if we can evaluate a group of patients able to this complication. We have included forty-four men and six women with a mean age of 38 years. The disease evolue for 8.8 years in mean. Ag HLA B27 was present in 70% of the cases. Thirty patients have ankylosing spondylitis, although twenty have a secondary spodylartropathy psoriasic rheumatism [12 cases], inflammatory bowel disease crohn's disease [4 cases], RCH [three cases] and fiessenger le Roy-reiter syndrom in one case. All the patients have had a cardiac check up with research of clinical cardiac manifestation, thoracic chest trans-thoracic echographi, Holter rhythmic done in five cases only. Cardiac involvement is found in five cases [10%] aortic regurgitation in 3 cases [6%] and mitral regurgitation in 2 cases [4%]. These valvular disease are well tolerated
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Assunto principal:
Ecocardiografia
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Doenças Inflamatórias Intestinais
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Colite Ulcerativa
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Doença de Crohn
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Artrite Psoriásica
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Doenças das Valvas Cardíacas
Limite:
Feminino
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Humanos
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Masculino
Idioma:
Francês
Revista:
Tunisie Med.
Ano de publicação:
2004
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