Heart’s layers damage in rheumatoid arthritis

Abstract

Introduction: The clinical spectrum of Rheumatoid Arthritis expands on various extra articular hypertension. For the second group of patients, we obtained an average for the DAS28 score of 2.92 and 32% (16 patients) were followed by their cardiologists for hypertension. At the EKG- 1 patient (2%) had a atrial fibrillation and 1 patient (2%) had a sinus tachycardia. The heart ultrasound showed that 4 patients (8%) had a Mitral Valve Insufficiency. Conclusion: In the end, during our research we have arrived at the same conclusion that other international studies demonstrated and it includes that patients diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis should be supervised very well and treated very carefully (for example: choosing biological treatment instead of the corticosteroids, NSAI), because if not, very frequently heart damage Associates and hastens the disease’s bad evolution, leading to a higher risk of mortality.