TY - JOUR T1 - Cardiac Involvement in Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis JF - The Journal of Rheumatology JO - J Rheumatol SP - 1209 LP - 1212 DO - 10.3899/jrheum.141513 VL - 42 IS - 7 AU - Lucy McGeoch AU - Simon Carette AU - David Cuthbertson AU - Gary S. Hoffman AU - Nader Khalidi AU - Curry L. Koening AU - Carol A. Langford AU - Carol A. McAlear AU - Larry Moreland AU - Paul A. Monach AU - Philip Seo AU - Ulrich Specks AU - Steven R. Ytterberg AU - Peter A. Merkel AU - Christian Pagnoux Y1 - 2015/07/01 UR - http://www.jrheum.org/content/42/7/1209.abstract N2 - Objective. To determine frequency and outcomes of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA)–related cardiac disease in a North American GPA cohort.Methods. Analysis was done of all patients in the Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium Longitudinal Study of GPA. Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with and without GPA-related cardiac involvement were compared.Results. Of 517 patients with GPA, 3.3% had cardiac involvement. No differences were observed between patients with or without cardiac involvement in terms of demographics, antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody positivity, or relapse rate.Conclusion. Cardiac involvement in GPA is rare and heterogeneous. In this cohort, cardiac involvement was not associated with a higher rate of relapse or premature death. ER -