Mercedes A García, Graciela S Alarcón, Gabriela Boggio, Leticia Hachuel, Ana Inés Marcos, Juan Carlos Marcos, Silvana Gentiletti, Francisco Caeiro, Emilia I Sato, Eduardo F Borba, João C Tavares Brenol, Loreto Massardo, José Fernando Molina-Restrepo, Gloria Vásquez, Marlene Guibert-Toledano, Leonor Barile-Fabris, Mary-Carmen Amigo, Guillermo F Huerta-Yáñez, Jorge M Cucho-Venegas, Rosa Chacón-Diaz, Bernardo A Pons-Estel
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to assess the cumulative incidence, risk and protective factors and impact on mortality of primary cardiac disease in SLE patients (disease duration ≤2 years) from a multi-ethnic, international, longitudinal inception cohort (34 centres, 9 Latin American countries). METHODS: Risk and protective factors of primary cardiac disease (pericarditis, myocarditis, endocarditis, arrhythmias and/or valvular abnormalities) were evaluated...
August 2014: Rheumatology