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Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging detects subclinical right ventricular impairment in systemic sclerosis.

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2007

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Gian Paolo Bezante, Daniela Rollando, Marta Sessarego, Nicoletta Panico, Maurizio Setti, Gilberto Filaci, Giuseppe Molinari, Manrico Balbi, Maurizio Cutolo, Antonio Barsotti,
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Abstract

Compromised RVF was found in patients with asymptomatic SSc. Unlike standard diagnostic techniques, cardiac MRI appears to be a rapid and noninvasive means of determining subclinical right myocardial involvement that is otherwise undetected in patients with SSc.