Although a great improvement has been achieved in the last decades in controlling IM, our study indicates that the mortality rate in this group of patients remains high. Cancer and cardiac involvement are important causes of death, and also prognostic factors for mortality in our group of patients. A careful search for cardiac involvement should be done in every patient with IM.
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