title: [Cardiac involvement in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis].
abstract: Four cases with cardiac involvement in patients suffering from systemic outset of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis are reported. The cases were chosen out of 83 juvenile rheumatoid arthritis patients studied from 1975 to 1988. They developed respectively myopericarditis (case 1), myocarditis (case 2), endopericarditis (case 3), myopericarditis (case 4). The drug employed in the acute disease phase was exclusively prednisone; in all subjects the acute inflammatory stage resolved.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Pediatrica I G. Gaslini, Università di Genova.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cottafava
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cosso
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Guglieri
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Siri
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tosca
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Morreale
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lombardi
mesh_terms: D001171:Arthritis, Juvenile / Q000150:complications*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans
vernacular_title: L'interessamento cardiaco in corso di artrite reumatoide infantile.