Lupus-related mitral valve disease: embolic coronary occlusion as a unique cause of myocardial infarction

Giri, S.; Parke, A.L.; Mangion, J.; Hasson, J.; Gillam, L.; Waters, D.D.

Canadian Journal of Cardiology 13(9): 859-863

1997


ISSN/ISBN: 0828-282X
PMID: 9343038
Document Number: 470243
Early diagnosis and greatly improved treatment have markedly altered the clinical evolution of systemic lupus erythematosus; the pattern of cardiac involvement in lupus has also changed. To illustrate this, a young woman who died from severe mitral valve disease, including a coronary embolus from verrucous endocarditis, is presented. Mitral valve involvement in lupus is no longer limited to the small benign lesions described by Libman and Sacks.

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