Juvenile spondyloarthritis and severe cardiac involvement in a female patient.
Heart involvement is a recognized complication in 10-20% of all adults with spondyloarthritis. Until now only 8 cases of cardiac involvement in juvenile spondyloarthritis (JS) have been reported, all male patients. We describe the first female patient with JS, in whom progressive cardiac involvement developed, and summarize the pediatric JS cases with cardiac involvement.
Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic, AK-Eilbek, Hamburg, Germany. sprechstude@kinderrheumatologie.de
Ivan
I
Foeldvari
Christian
C
Thiel
Michele
M
Eiselt
Jochen
J
Weil
D001023:Aortic Valve Prolapse / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002648:Child; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008945:Mitral Valve Prolapse / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D025241:Spondylarthritis / Q000150:complications*