RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Presumptive evidence of cardiac rheumatoid nodules assessed by twodimensional echocardiography
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 61
OP 64
VO 52
IS 1
A1 Barney B. Beaver
A1 Ernesto E. Salcedo
A1 John Yiannikas
A1 Rafael Arsuaga
YR 1985
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/52/1/61.abstract
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.