PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Beaver, Barney B.
AU  - Salcedo, Ernesto E.
AU  - Yiannikas, John
AU  - Arsuaga, Rafael
TI  - Presumptive evidence of cardiac rheumatoid nodules assessed by twodimensional echocardiography
DP  - 1985 Mar 20
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 61--64
VI  - 52
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/52/1/61.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/52/1/61.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1985 Mar 20; 52
AB  - Three patients with nodular rheumatoid arthritis underwent two-dimensional echocardiography for evaluation of cardiac murmurs of undefined etiology. Each patient had long-standing rheumatoid arthritis with palpable and visible extensor surface nodules. Discretely identifiable, nodular-appearing, echodense masses involving various cardiac structures were visualized in each of the patients examined. These echodense masses may represent cardiac rheumatoid nodules—the unique cardiac manifestation of rheumatoid heart disease.