%0 Journal Article %T Asymptomatic Cardiac Manifestations in Rheumatoid Arthritis in Conakry (Guinea) %A Aly Badra Kamissoko %A Ibrahima Sory Barry %A Marina Sanda %A Cletus Dieuval Houngbegnon %A Mamadou Lamine Diallo %A Abdoulaye Barry %A Mamadou Dadhi Baldé %A Owonayo Oniankitan %J Open Journal of Rheumatology and Autoimmune Diseases %P 57-64 %@ 2164-005X %D 2022 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/ojra.2022.122007 %X Introduction: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease. It is a systemic disease with extra-articular manifestations that can be life-threatening. In sub-Saharan Africa, there is little published information on cardiovascular manifestations in RA. Objective: The objective is to determine the asymptomatic cardiac manifestations during rheumatoid arthritis in Conakry. Patients and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study lasting 6 months from January 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020 in the rheumatology and cardiology departments of the Ignace Deen National Hospital. Patients with RA diagnosed according to the 2010 ACR/EULAR criteria, asymptomatic at the cardiovascular level, which had an ECG and echocardiography, were included in the study. Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction was considered in any patient with an E/A ratio < 1, an E/E’ ratio > 10, and an LVEF = 50%, assessed by the Simpson biplane method and classified according to Redfield. Epidemiological, clinical and paraclinical data were analyzed using SPSS statistics 21.0 software. Results: Seventeen cases of rheumatoid arthritis (5.9%) were collected. There was a predominance of women with 14 cases (82.4%). The mean age of patients was %K Rheumatoid Arthritis %K Asymptomatic Manifestations %K Electrocardiography %K Sub-Saharan Africa %K Guinea %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=116709