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THOMAS N. JAMES, MD; ROBERT E. BIRK, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1966;117(4):561-567.

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THE HEART is often involved in polyarteritis nodosa and congestive failure is the second most frequent cause of death in this disease.¹ Aneurysms of the coronary arteries were among the features first recognized in earlier studies ² but are seen less often now; this is perhaps due in part to the effectiveness of anti-inflammatory therapy with adrenal corticosteroids. In a recent review of cardiac pathology observed in polyarteritis nodosa,³ the major manifestations were coronary arteritis (62%), myocardial infarction of various sizes (62%), and acute pericarditis (33%). Arrhythmias were described in only 9% and all these were supraventricular in origin; atrioventricular (AV) conduction disturbances were not reported. However, in the same series of patients tachycardia was present in 66%, being the second most frequent clinical cardiac finding.

Since the nutrient arteries of the sinus node and AV node are of the size (about 1 mm diameter) often involved . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
DETROIT

From the Department of Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit.

Footnotes
Received for publication Sept 21, 1965; accepted Jan 3, 1966.

Reprint requests to the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich 48202 (Dr. James).

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