| Literature DB >> 18493766 |
Hideki Nakamura1, Seiko Tateishi, Atsushi Kawakami, Hiroaki Ida, Taku Fukuda, Michiyo Sasaki, Yuji Koide, Naoto Ashizawa, Shinji Seto, Tomayoshi Hayashi, Shinichi Sato, Katsumi Eguchi.
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A 54-year-old female was diagnosed as mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) complicated with secondary Sjögren's syndrome. Although she had no dyspnea on exertion, the chest X-ray showed cardiomegaly with interstitial pneumonia. The echocardiogram demonstrated asymmetric hypertrophy of the interventricular septum. Diagnosis of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) was confirmed by left ventriculography and myocardial biopsy. She was treated with prednisolone, resulting in improvement of swollen hand, elevated muscle enzymes and interstitial pneumonia. A rare complication of HOCM with MCTD was described.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID： 18493766 DOI： 10.1007/s00296-008-0608-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Rheumatol Int ISSN： 0172-8172 Impact factor: 2.631