Investigators conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study of 756 patients with RA and an electronic medical record of erythrocyte sedimentation rate seen at least 2 times at a minority-serving metropolitan outpatient rheumatology clinic.
Study investigators assessed whether cardiac axis deviation may indicate cardiac function abnormalities, allowing for predictions of disease severity and mortality.
Authors presented the case of a 48-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis, newly diagnosed microscopic polyangiitis, and a recent COVID-19 infection who stopped taking immunosuppressive therapy.
Annual volume of cardiac procedures for patients with gout exceeded those for patients with RA from 1998 to 2014.
