Case ReportLarge Left Ventricular Aneurysm and Multifocal Myocardial Involvement in a Patient With Systemic Sclerosis
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Case Presentation
A 43-year-old man was referred to our outpatient clinic because of episodes of chest pain that had occurred 2 weeks before. He was a former smoker with mild hypertension. Five years previously he had began to experience Raynaud's phenomenon and thickening of the skin of the fingers. Antinuclear antibodies were strongly positive (1/320), both in a granular and nucleolar pattern; anti-topoisomerase 1 (Scl-70) and anti–Sjögren's syndrome–related antigen A (anti-SSA/Ro, 60 kD) antibodies were also
Acknowledgements
We thank Sergio Lanata, MD for performing the histologic analysis.
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The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
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