Meeting
Abstract Number: 84
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Select studies in the past have described significantly increased risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). Increased atherosclerosis as well as microvascular involvement with recurrent focal ischemia and subsequent fibrosis are the proposed mechanisms. Our study aims to shed further light on SSc as an independent risk factor for […]