Cardiac Sarcoidosis Treatment Revisited

Scadding revisited: a proposed staging system for cardiac sarcoidosis.

important problem. While autopsy findings suggest that up to 25% of patients with sarcoidosis (1) may have myocardial granulomas, only about 5% (2) of American patients with sarcoidosis manifest symptomatic cardiac disease. Cardiac involvement may result in heart block, wall motion abnormalities, cardiomyopathy, and malignant arrhythmias, all of which may adversely impact quality of life and su...

Cardiac sarcoidosis.

Cardiac sarcoidosis.

Cardiac Sarcoidosis.

Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) is a rare and under-recognized clinical entity that requires a high level of suspicion and low threshold for screening in order to make the diagnosis. CS may manifest in a variety of ways, and its initial presentation can range from asymptomatic electrocardiographic abnormalities to overt heart failure to sudden cardiac death. The aim of this literature review is to pro...

Cardiac Sarcoidosis.

Studies suggest clinically manifest cardiac involvement occurs in 5% of patients with pulmonary/systemic sarcoidosis. The principal manifestations of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) are conduction abnormalities, ventricular arrhythmias, and heart failure. Data indicate that an 20% to 25% of patients with pulmonary/systemic sarcoidosis have asymptomatic (clinically silent) cardiac involvement. An inter...