Why the study?
What are the clinical and pathological cardiac findings in patients with periarteritis nodosa?
Population
66 necropsied cases of periarteritis nodosa without associated collagen disease
Design
Case_series
Authors
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Alerts clinicians to cardiac risk in periarteritis nodosa; extends pathological data but requires prospective validation.
What are the clinical and pathological cardiac findings in patients with periarteritis nodosa?
In patients with periarteritis nodosa, cardiac involvement is highly prevalent and often fatal, characterized clinically by congestive heart failure and pathologically by coronary necrotizing arteritis and myocardial infarction.
HOLSINGER et al. (1962) studied this question.
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