M. Vintilă *, Monica Băluță **, V. Vintilă ***
* Conf. Dr. Marius Vintilă, Catedra de Medicină Internă, șeful Secției Cardiologie, Spitalul Colentina
** Dr. Monica Băluță, asistent universitar, medic specialist, Catedra de Medicină Internă, Secția Cardiologie, Spitalul Colentina
*** Dr. Vlad Vintilă, medic stagiar, Spitalul Universitar de Urgență, București
Abstract
Diseases that affect connective tissues are divided into the very rare heritable disorders of connective tissue and the so-called rheumatic diseases. Rheumatic diseases share many clinical features such as acute or chronic arthritis and a variation of systemic inflammatory manifestation. Etiology and pathogenesis of these disorders remain obscure. They all involve the heart differently and to varying degrees, as would be expected considering the variety of connective tissue structures that make up the heart’s “skeleton”. Varied presentations and treatments of several rheumatic conditions and their cardiovascular involvement are the subjects of this paper.