Use of advanced cardiovascular imaging in rheumatic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases
Leher Gumber, Mohammed Askari Meghji, Vishal Kakkar, Karthikeyan Sivasankaran, Zahra M Iftikhar, Najla Elndari, Charlotte Talbot, Jason M Tarkin, Sven Plein, Marc R Dweck, Taryn Youngstein, Ziad Mallat, Lesley-Anne Bissell, Jonathan Heaney, John Reynolds, Maya H Buch · 2026
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Leher Gumber and colleagues audited advanced heart imaging in 2026 for rare rheumatic diseases across four British hospitals. Lupus, scleroderma, muscle inflammation, vasculitis, and Sjogren disease can silently damage the heart, yet real-world imaging use and its payoff were poorly charted.
Among 294 scans in 261 patients, about 60 percent showed heart abnormalities, most often in vasculitis, and many abnormal scans came from patients without symptoms. Imaging changed rheumatic treatment in about a third of cases, yet few went to formal team discussion, giving guideline writers a clear gap to close in future guidance.
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| CREATOR | Leher Gumber, Mohammed Askari Meghji, Vishal Kakkar, Karthikeyan Sivasankaran, Zahra M Iftikhar, Najla Elndari, Charlotte Talbot, Jason M Tarkin, Sven Plein, Marc R Dweck, Taryn Youngstein, Ziad Mallat, Lesley-Anne Bissell, Jonathan Heaney, John Reynolds, Maya H Buch |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |