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A 30-year-old woman with mixed connective tissue disease was admitted with Wernicke’s aphasia and progressive dyspnoea with chest pain. Multiple brain infarcts on a computed tomographic scan were compatible with a thromboembolic aetiology. Echocardiography showed marked hypokinesia of the posterior wall, biventricular dilatation and a decreased left-ventricle ejection fraction (40%). A diagnosis of myocarditis was made on myocardial biopsies disclosing interstitial lymphocytic infiltrates and myocardial fibre necrosis. A treatment with steroids and monthly pulsed cyclophosphamide was introduced. The heart function rapidly improved as assessed by a left-ventricle ejection fraction of 55% and remained stable 17 months thereafter.
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Received: 10 November 1997 / Accepted: 22 June 1998
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Hammann, C., Genton, C., Delabays, A. et al. Myocarditis of Mixed Connective Tissue Disease: Favourable Outcome after Intravenous Pulsed Cyclophosphamide. Clin Rheumatol 18, 85–87 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100670050062
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