ANCA-positive Vasculitides and Coronary Artery Pathology

Authors

  • Haralambos M Moutsopoulos Department of Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, National University of Athens, Athens, Greece

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2015/hc.v3i4.287

Abstract

Systemic necrotizing vasculitides preferentially involve small- or medium-sized vessels and occasionally the coronary vessels and the myocardium. Cardiac involvement was noninvasively evaluated in a group of 32 patients with vasculitides but without cardiac symptoms with use of magnetic resonance imaging techniques and compared with a control group of 13 individuals. The study showed increased coronary vessel diameters in the majority of patients and in some patients to the degree of ectasia; myocardial scar was rare.

Author Biography

Haralambos M Moutsopoulos, Department of Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, National University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Specialty: IM/Rheumatology

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Vol. 3 No. 4 (2008)

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