[Possibilities of radiodiagnosis in systemic connective tissue syndromes]

Two cases with a rare systemic disease are described. The first of them is as follows: a female aged 58 developed sclerodermic cardiomyopathy manifesting by cardiomegaly which resulted in myocardial infarction followed by heart aneurysm. In the second observation a female aged 60 developed mixed systemic connective-tissue Sharp-type syndrome though with calcinosis in heart structures (similarly as in Thibierge - Weissenbach syndrome) and with renal cysts, possibly of a connective-tissue origin. In this latter case the role of ultrasonic examinations in the detection of heart and kidney involvement was of particular importance. In both cases glucocorticoids were found diagnostically valuable for the detection of autoimmune pathologic processes.