Chronic heart failure in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis

Аннотация

Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic inflammatory disease of connective tissue with a predominant lesion of small joints by the type of erosive-destructive polyarthritis of unclear etiology with a complex autoimmune pathogenesis. The disease is characterized by high disability (70%), which occurs quite early. The main causes of death from the disease are infectious complications and renal failure. Rheumatoid arthritis is widespread all over the world and all ethnic groups are susceptible to it. Chronic heart failure is a clinical syndrome in some diseases, accompanied by characteristic symptoms (shortness of breath, decreased physical activity, fatigue, edema, etc.) associated with inadequate perfusion of organs and tissues at rest or during exercise, accompanied by fluid retention in the body and its accumulation in soft tissues.