Abstract
Relatively high incidence of the involvement of the heart in patients with rheumatoid arthritis was reported, Abnormal electrocardiographic findings were found in 36.8% of 95 patients. Heart murmur was heard in 19.7% of 117 patients. An average of cardio-thoracic index was greater than that of normal persons.
Relationship between abnormalities of ST segment and/or T wave and other laboratory data did not reveal the higher incidence of the pathological changes in the patients with dysproteinemia.
Six autopsied cases of rheumatoid arthritis were presented and all of them showed anatomical heart lesions.
