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Echocardiography in systemic lupus erythematosus

Rheumatology Division, A=55A Balmoral Road, Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 7DN, UK.

C Balakrishanan

G Mangat

G Mittal

Rheumatology Division

N Kumar

P. D. Hinduja National Hospital & Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, India.

V R Joshi

Rheumatology Division

Two dimensional echocardiography with doppler examination was performed in 54 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Nine (17%) had significant cardiac involvement (four left ventricular hypertrophy, one moderate pericardial effusion, one severe aortic regurgitation, and three ventricular systolic dysfunction). We further studied diastolic function in 45 patients who did not have a major abnormality in echo. SLE was graded as active in 16 patients (SLEDAI > 5) and inactive in 29 patients. Twenty age-and sex-matched subjects acted as controls. The data were compared using one way ANOVA test. Patients with active disease had significant diastolic dysfunction compared to inactive patients and controls as indicated by increased peak A (P < 0.01) and decreased E/A ratio (P < 0.01). There was no linear correlation between disease activity and diastolic dysfunction if SLEDAI was considered as a continuous variable (r = 0.29 for E =A). Anticardiolipin antibodies (both IgG and IgM) were elevated in five patients (13 studied). One of them had severe mitral regurgitation, one had trace mitral and aortic regurgitation and one had diastolic dysfunction.

We conclude that asymptomatic diastolic dysfunction is present in SLE patients.

Key Words: heart disease • diastolic dysfunction • anticardiolipin antibodies

Lupus, Vol. 7, No. 8, 540-544 (1998)
DOI: 10.1191/096120398678920578


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