Sarcoid heart disease.

Sarcoid heart disease.

Myocardial sarcoidosis is not a rare disease in the UK and it is still probably under-diagnosed. A high index of suspicion in necessary for diagnosis of myocardial sarcoidosis, which should be thought of in any unusual form of heart disease for which there is no adequate explanation, particularly if there are serious rhythm changes or unexplained heart failure. Mitral systolic murmurs occur fre...

Sarcoid heart disease: clinical course and treatment.

Sarcoidosis is a rare granulomatous disease of unknown etiology that can affect any organ. Cardiac involvement, although uncommon, has a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations and is potentially fatal. Although there is no agreement upon a strategy for the diagnosis (which is difficult to make based on clinical information alone), the introduction of newer technology is promising and may be u...

Clinicopathologic correlations. De subitaneis mortibus. XXV. Sarcoid heart disease.

Postmortem findings within the cardiac conduction system are described from the case of a black woman with sarcoid heart disease who died suddenly. Her clinical course had been characterized by recurring ventricular arrhythmias and bouts of syncope. Both the sinus node artery and the atrioventricular (A-V) node artery were sites of focal fibromuscular dysplasia, which thickened slightly the wal...

Sarcoid heart disease: a review and an appeal.

Congenital Heart Disease and Pregnancy

  ضایعات مادرزادی قلب خط مشی های گوناگونی از قبیل مراقبت دقیق بیماران باردار تا پیشگیری از بارداری و یا خاتمه آن را در زنان سن باروری ایجاب می کند. با پیشرفت روشهای درمان جراحی و دارویی در تصحیح و یا بر طرف کردن علایم بیماری مادرزادی، اکنون بسیاری از زنان مبتلا به مرحله باروری رسیده و باردار می شوند. اداره موفقیت آمیز این زنان در طی بارداری و بلافاصله بعد از زایمان به همکاری نزدیک بین متخصصین ...