Cardiac involvement in rheumatoid arthritis

• Main Authors: V. De Gennaro Colonna (Author), M. Longhi (Author), L. Gianturco (Author), F. Atzeni (Author), S. Cicala (Author), L. Tomasoni (Author), S. Sitia (Author), M. Turiel (Author), P. Sarzi-Puttini (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: PAGEPress Publications, 2011-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic disease of unknown etiology characterized by a chronic inflammatory process mainly leading to destruction of synovial membrane of small and major diarthrodial joints. The prevalence of RA within the general adult population is about 1% and female subjects in f...