Cardiac fibrosis and microvascular damage detected by cardiac mr are a hallmark of systemic sclerosis heart involvement

Methods We included SSc patients from the SSc cohort of our Institution. They underwent clinical evaluation, EKG, CPK, CPK-MB, CRP, ESR, specific SSc autoantibodies, coronary angiotomography (GE, 64 multidetectors) and cardiac MRI (1.5 T... GE, sequencies in T1 GRE Delay Enhancement to evaluate myocardial damage, resting and postadenosine myocardial perfusion TIGRE-echoplanarimaging) was analyzed semiquantitatively with signal intensity curves.