Autopsy findings in patients with rheumatoid arthritis frequently demonstrate cardiac inflammatory changes and lesions suggestive of prior rheumatic fever.
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May indicate cardiac involvement in rheumatoid arthritis; leaves open causal links and does not support practice change.
Goehrs et al. (1960) studied this question.
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