TY - BOOK AU - Shaimaa Nabeel Badran AU - Hatem Mohamed Saeid Elazizy , AU - Hind Helal Mounir Abdelshafy , AU - Samia Mohamed Hassan Fadda , TI - Pattern and distribution of myocardial fibrosis in systemic sclerosis : : Correlation between a delayed enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, doppler echocardiography, 24 hours holter monitoring and clinical variables / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Shaimaa Nabeel Badran , KW - Doppler echocardiography KW - Myocardial fibrosis KW - Systemic sclerosis N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation; Issued also as CD N2 - Systemic sclerosis (SS) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by widespread microvascular damage and fibrosis of skin and various internal organs. Myocardial fibrosis was reported in 50-80% of cases in necropsy series and accounts for a substantial portion of cardiac mortality. It may manifest as conduction system abnormalities, atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, biventricularcardiac failure or sudden death ER -