title: [Value of echocardiography in the diagnosis of cardiac lesions in systemic scleroderma].
abstract: A total of 20 patients with systemic scleroderma (SSD) were examined with the use of a single-measure and sectoral echocardiography. Despite the absence of clinical signs of circulatory insufficiency a disorder of intracardiac hemodynamics with the indices of the central hemodynamics being normal were revealed in the examined patients. Latent exudative pericarditis producing no substantial effect on the hemodynamics was diagnosed in four patients. Fibrosis of the valvular apparatus was observed in three patients. It has been found advisable to include echocardiography into complex examination of patients with SSD.
authors.forename: S I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Brusin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D012595:Scleroderma, Systemic / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology
vernacular_title: Znachenie ékhokardiografii v diagnostike porazheniia serdtsa pri sistemnoĭ sklerodermii.