Cardiac involvement in myositis.
After careful examination, cardiac involvement can be found in certain patients with inflammatory muscle disease. The clinical significance is not always clear, although in some patients profound disturbances can become manifest. Currently, no laboratory assay can be relied on to detect cardiac disease with 100% accuracy. Cardiac troponin I is, however, the best test currently available.
Yazici
Yusuf
Y
Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA. yaziciy@hss.edu
Kagen
Lawrence J
LJ
D000328:Adult; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D009220:Myositis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D019210:Troponin I / Q000097:blood
D019210:Troponin I