Research ArticleArticle
Tocilizumab Treatment Increases Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Decreases Left Ventricular Mass Index in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis without Cardiac Symptoms: Assessed Using 3.0 Tesla Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Hitomi Kobayashi, Yasuyuki Kobayashi, Jon T. Giles, Kihei Yoneyama, Yasuo Nakajima and Masami Takei
The Journal of Rheumatology October 2014, 41 (10) 1916-1921; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.131540
Hitomi Kobayashi
From the Division of Hematology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine; the Division of Rheumatology, Itabashi Chuo Medical Center, Tokyo; the Department of Radiology and the Division of Cardiology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki,
Japan; the Division of Rheumatology, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York,
USA.
Yasuyuki Kobayashi
Jon T. Giles
Kihei Yoneyama
Yasuo Nakajima
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The Journal of Rheumatology
Vol. 41, Issue 10
1 Oct 2014
Tocilizumab Treatment Increases Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Decreases Left Ventricular Mass Index in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis without Cardiac Symptoms: Assessed Using 3.0 Tesla Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Hitomi Kobayashi, Yasuyuki Kobayashi, Jon T. Giles, Kihei Yoneyama, Yasuo Nakajima, Masami Takei
The Journal of Rheumatology Oct 2014, 41 (10) 1916-1921; DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.131540
Tocilizumab Treatment Increases Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Decreases Left Ventricular Mass Index in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis without Cardiac Symptoms: Assessed Using 3.0 Tesla Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Hitomi Kobayashi, Yasuyuki Kobayashi, Jon T. Giles, Kihei Yoneyama, Yasuo Nakajima, Masami Takei
The Journal of Rheumatology Oct 2014, 41 (10) 1916-1921; DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.131540