“…Diastolic dysfunction has also been observed by our group and others in patients with APS and SLE [17,18,[34][35][36][37]. However, only few studies prospectively examined the outcome of valve disease or diastolic dysfunction in these patients [3,[9][10][11][13][14][15][16]19], most of them in a short follow-up period (r 5 years) [3,9,10,[13][14][15][16] and either only in APS [13,14,19] or only in SLE patients (with or without aPL) [3,[9][10][11]15,16] (Supplementary Table 2).…”