A Marked Response to Immunosuppressive Intervention for Abruptly Occurring Cardiac Complications in a Case of Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis Overlapped with Dermatomyositis

• Main Authors: Tsunehisa Nagamori (Author), Yoichiro Yoshida (Author), Hironori Takahashi (Author), Hideharu Oka (Author), Aya Kajihama (Author), Koichi Nakau (Author), Masaya Sugimoto (Author), Masako Minami-Hori (Author), Hiroshi Azuma (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Juvenile-onset systemic sclerosis (jSSc) is a rare condition, having unique characteristic features compared to adult-onset SSc. Although cardiac involvement (CI) is known as a leading cause of mortality overall in SSc, the importance of CI in jSSc has not been emphasized. Here we present a 13-year-...