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Non-arthritic rheumatoid valvulitis with coronary arteritis causing myocardial infarction
1Department of Pathology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
Virchows Archiv. A, Pathological Anatomy and Histopathology
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Rheumatoid valvulitis occurring in an individual without arthritis has rarely been reported. A 62-year-old woman died after repeated myocardial infarction, with no articular symptoms but with a fever of unknown origin and a positive rheumatoid factor. Autopsy examination revealed granulomatous inflammatory lesions with rheumatoid nodules present in the aortic valve and the base of the left coronary artery. Wide-spread myocardial infarction was found in the septal and anterolateral walls of the left ventricle.