Is heart transplantation a valuable option in patients with diffuse systemic sclerosis and primary cardiac involvement?

Systemic sclerosis patients with primary cardiac involvement can be reliably diagnosed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and are associated with a poor prognosis. This case report highlights the importance of considering heart transplantation in those patients as a lifesaving procedure.

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Autores principales: Turcotte‐Gosselin, Frédéric, Turgeon, Pierre Yves, Ikic, Alena, Beaudoin, Jonathan, Joubert, Philippe, Dubois, Michelle, Voisine, Pierre, Sénéchal, Mario
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6982482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31998504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2600
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author Turcotte‐Gosselin, Frédéric
Turgeon, Pierre Yves
Ikic, Alena
Beaudoin, Jonathan
Joubert, Philippe
Dubois, Michelle
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Sénéchal, Mario
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Turgeon, Pierre Yves
Ikic, Alena
Beaudoin, Jonathan
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Dubois, Michelle
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spelling pubmed-69824822020-01-29 Is heart transplantation a valuable option in patients with diffuse systemic sclerosis and primary cardiac involvement? Turcotte‐Gosselin, Frédéric Turgeon, Pierre Yves Ikic, Alena Beaudoin, Jonathan Joubert, Philippe Dubois, Michelle Voisine, Pierre Sénéchal, Mario Clin Case Rep Case Reports Systemic sclerosis patients with primary cardiac involvement can be reliably diagnosed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and are associated with a poor prognosis. This case report highlights the importance of considering heart transplantation in those patients as a lifesaving procedure. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6982482/ /pubmed/31998504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2600 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Turcotte‐Gosselin, Frédéric
Turgeon, Pierre Yves
Ikic, Alena
Beaudoin, Jonathan
Joubert, Philippe
Dubois, Michelle
Voisine, Pierre
Sénéchal, Mario
Is heart transplantation a valuable option in patients with diffuse systemic sclerosis and primary cardiac involvement?
title Is heart transplantation a valuable option in patients with diffuse systemic sclerosis and primary cardiac involvement?
title_full Is heart transplantation a valuable option in patients with diffuse systemic sclerosis and primary cardiac involvement?
title_fullStr Is heart transplantation a valuable option in patients with diffuse systemic sclerosis and primary cardiac involvement?
title_full_unstemmed Is heart transplantation a valuable option in patients with diffuse systemic sclerosis and primary cardiac involvement?
title_short Is heart transplantation a valuable option in patients with diffuse systemic sclerosis and primary cardiac involvement?
title_sort is heart transplantation a valuable option in patients with diffuse systemic sclerosis and primary cardiac involvement?
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6982482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31998504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2600
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