Abstract
Cardiovascular disorders are a vital manifestation of systemic diseases and lead to substantial mortality and morbidity. Echocardiography has emerged as a useful noninvasive modality for the screening and evaluation of cardiac involvement in these cases. The technological developments in echocardiographic techniques and their concomitant advances in the recognition of subclinical diseases have ushered in a greater appreciation of the nature and prevalence of cardiac involvement in this group of patients. The present review explains cardiac involvement in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, Takayasu arteritis, and ankylosing spondylitis and introduces the role of different echocardiographic modalities in their evaluation.
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Abbreviations
- APS:
-
Antiphospholipid syndrome
- AV:
-
Aortic valve
- CAD:
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Coronary artery disease
- MR:
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Mitral regurgitation
- MV:
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Mitral valve
- PH:
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Pulmonary hypertension
- RA:
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Rheumatoid arteritis
- SLE:
-
Systemic lupus erythematosus
- TA:
-
Takayasu arteritis
- TEE:
-
Transesophageal echocardiography
- TTE:
-
Transthoracic echocardiography
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LV long axis view showing thickened MV leaflets (AVI 14922 kb)
LV long axis view showing thickened MV leaflets associated with moderate AR and moderate MR (AVI 7325 kb)
Short axis view (at the mitral valve level) showing thickening at the tips of the MV leaflets in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (AVI 12285 kb)
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Alizadehasl, A., Sadeghpour, A. (2018). Echocardiography in Systemic Diseases. In: Sadeghpour, A., Alizadehasl, A. (eds) Case-Based Textbook of Echocardiography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67691-3_40
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