Why the study?
What are the clinical characteristics, outcomes, and risk factors of lupus myocarditis in hospitalized patients with systemic lupus erythematosus?
Population
125 hospitalized Chinese patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, including 25 with lupus myocarditis and…
Design
Case-control
Follow-up
in-hospital
Authors
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High SLE disease activity may flag myocarditis risk in SLE; leaves open whether activity-guided interventions reduce cardiac events.
What are the clinical characteristics, outcomes, and risk factors of lupus myocarditis in hospitalized patients with systemic lupus erythematosus?
High SLE disease activity is an independent risk factor for lupus myocarditis, which often presents early in the disease course with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction but has a satisfactory outcome with aggressive immunosuppression.
Zhang et al. (2015) studied this question.
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