Le Guludec D, Lhote F, Weinmann P, Royer I, Jarrousse B, Caillat-Vigneron N, Guillevin L, Moretti J L
Service de Médecine Nucléaire, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France.
Ann Rheum Dis. 1993 Mar;52(3):235-8. doi: 10.1136/ard.52.3.235.
Heart disease is a rare but important complication of polymyositis. Diagnosis of myocardial disease is usually based on non-specific clinical, electrocardiographic, and echocardiographic data. This paper reports a case of polymyositis with myocardial disease diagnosed by myocardial imaging with radiolabelled antibody to myosin, a specific marker of the necrotic myocardial fibre.