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A 29-year-old woman has had increasing weakness over the past year, and now has difficulty climbing a single flight of stairs. Her muscles are sore most of the time. She has little difficulty writing or typing, however. During the past 3 months, she has had increasing difficulty swallowing. She has experienced chest pain for the past week. On physical examination, she is afebrile. Her blood pressure is 115/75 mm Hg. Muscle strength is 4/5 in all extremities. No rashes are present. She has 2+ pitting edema to the knees. Rales are auscultated over lower lung fields. Laboratory studies show serum creatine kinase level of 458 U/L and Jo-1 antibodies. Which of the following additional complications of her disease is she most likely to have?
Bony ankylosis
Myocarditis
Pericarditis
Sclerodactyly
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