AN AUTOPSY CASE OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS WITH AORTIC STENO-INSUFFICIENCY, ANGINA PECTORIS AND SEVERE HEART FAILURE

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Although nonspecific pericarditis, myocarditis, valvulitis and coronary arteritis are known as cardiac lesions that accompany rheumatoid arthritis (RA), there have been few reports of the occurrence of clinically severe valvular disease. We report here the case of 69-year-old man with a 25-year history of RA who died of acute left-sided heart failure complicating to aortic steno-insufficiency and angina pectoris. Autopsy findings revealed the coincidence of a congenital bicuspid aortic valve with chronic inflammation, fibrosis and calcification ; eccentric hypertrophy and myocardial fibrosis of the left ventricle ; 75% luminal narrowing of the proximal portion of the coronary artery due to atherosclerosis, and narrowing of the small arteries of the cardiac muscle due to angitis. It is deduced that the coronary artery lesions, aortic valve lesions and myocardial lesions were aggravated by the bicuspid aortic valve, changes with ageing and corticosteroid therapy.
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1984-09-20