Abstract:Introduction: Delayed enhancement - magnetic resonance imaging (DE-MRI)
has demonstrated that nonischemic cardiomyopathy is mainly characterized
by intramural or epicardial fibrosis whereas global endomyocardial
fibrosis suggests cardiac involvement in autoimmune rheumatic diseases
or amyloidosis. Conduction disorders and sudden cardiac death are
important manifestations of autoimmune rheumatic diseases with cardiac
involvement but the substrates of ventricular arrhythmias in autoimmune
rheumatic diseases have… Show more
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