FRI0139 Inflammatory cell infiltrates in the heart of patients with coronary artery disease with and without inflammatory rheumatic disease: a biopsy study.
Abstract:Background
Systemic rheumatic diseases (SRDs) are associated with increased cardiovascular (CV) morbidity due to accelerated atherosclerosis. However, SRDs are also associated with cardiac vasculitis that may contribute to the increased CV risk. In the Feiring Heart Biopsy Study (FHBS) a high occurrence of inflammatory cell infiltrates (ICI) in the aorta of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and SRD were found and therefore we wanted to examine if this patient group also had a high occurrence of infla… Show more
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