Rapidly progressive heart failure resulting from cardiac sarcoidosis
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Heart block resulting from myocardial sarcoidosis.
Myocardial sarcoidosis is a relatively uncommon cause of heart block. In their review of the published reports in I968, Bashour et al. could only collect 45 cases of proven sarcoidosis in whom death was due to this pathology. Of these cases, 35 had electrocardiographic studies before death, and complete heart block was shown in 14 of them. On the basis of necropsy findings, the incidence of myo...
متن کاملHeart transplantation for advanced heart failure due to cardiac sarcoidosis.
BACKGROUND Selected patients with cardiac sarcoidosis undergo heart transplantation, but outcomes may be adversely affected by recurrent cardiac sarcoidosis or progressive extra-cardiac sarcoidosis. OBJECTIVES We present our single-center experience of patients with cardiac sarcoidosis who underwent heart transplantation. METHODS Consecutive patients that underwent heart transplantation bet...
متن کاملCardiac Sarcoidosis Presenting as Acute Progressive Heart Failure with Abdominal Lymphadenopathy
A 77-year-old Japanese woman presented with asymptomatic abdominal lymphadenopathy. Soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL2R) and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) levels were elevated, and a pathological examination of lymph-node biopsies revealed non-caseating granulomas, which was consistent with sarcoidosis. Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography did not show a clear accumulation in...
متن کاملtraumatic aneurysm of innominate artery resulting in tracheal stenosis and rapidly progressive respiratory failure; a case report and literature review
traumatic injuries to great vessels are relative common in trauma practice. blunt thoracic trauma may result in dissection injury to aorta and innominate artery. we herein present a late presentation of traumatic innominate artery aneurysm. a29-year-old woman presented with dyspnea to our emergency department. she had previous motor-vehicle accident a month before presentation for which had und...
متن کاملRapidly progressive cardiac sarcoidosis: Initial presentation with sinus node dysfunction and right bundle branch block☆
Introduction Complete heart block is the most common electrocardiogram (ECG) finding in patients with cardiac sarcoidosis because of the predilection of granulomatous infiltration of the basal septum or involvement of the atrioventricular nodal artery. We report a cardiac sarcoid case presenting with sinus node dysfunction and describe the utility of fluorine-18fluorodeoxyglucose positron emiss...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Heart Journal
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0002-8703
DOI: 10.1016/0002-8703(88)90035-x