Arrhythmias in a Patient With Sarcoidosis. Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic granulomatous disease of unknown etiology; up to 27% of cases entail cardiac involvement. Conduction abnormalities and ventricular tachycardia are the most common arrhythmias and can cause sudden death. We describe a patient who developed cardiac sarcoidosis 9 years after undergoing surgery for neurosarcoidosis. He presen...

Several diagnostic imaging methodologies are available for the clinical evaluation of sarcoidosis, but all have their limitations. FDG PET/CT is frequently used, but this technique does not provide optimal results in all cases. Novel radiopharmaceuticals aimed at other disease targets may be helpful, particularly in cardiac sarcoidosis when FDG PET/CT has a low diagnostic accuracy, due to diffi...

AIMS Cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis is reported in up to 30% of patients. Left ventricular involvement demonstrated by contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance has been well validated. We sought to determine the prevalence and distribution of right ventricular late gadolinium enhancement in patients diagnosed with pulmonary sarcoidosis. METHODS AND RESULTS We prospectively evaluated 8...

Background: Sarcoidosis can affect virtually any organ of the body, primarily lungs, lymphatic system, skin or eyes, a combination these sites and it is characterized by formation non-caseating granulomas. Muscular involvement in sarcoidosis usually asymptomatic pauci-symptomatic, its nodular form exceptional. Observation: In this study, we report case 36-year-old man who had been...

A 32-year-old man presented with palpitation. He was diagnosed with pulmonary sarcoidosis by lung biopsy. The electrocardiogram showed first-degree atrioventricular block and complete right bundle branch block (CRBBB). We planned to examine laboratory data, echocardiography, Holter monitoring, and gallium-67 scintigraphy. Before he went through all these exams, he developed ventricular tachycar...

A 73-year-old man with history of pulmonary sarcoidosis was found to have runs of non-sustained bidirectional ventricular tachycardia (BVT) with two different QRS morphologies on a Holter monitor. Cardiac magnetic resonance delayed gadolinium imaging revealed a region of patchy mid-myocardial enhancement within the left ventricular basal inferolateral myocardium. An 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positr...

Background Cardiac involvement in patients with sarcoidosis is an independent predictor of mortality and associated with very poor prognosis. Inflammatory processes within the myocardium as well as subsequent fibrotic myocardial alterations may lead to diastolic dysfunction and at worst sudden death resulting from ventricular tachy-arrhythmias or conduction block. Diastolic dysfunction as a sig...

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Sarcoidosis is a chronic granulomatous disorder with multiorgan involvement. Cardiac sarcoidosis characterized by the growth of granulomas in any part heart which portends poor prognosis. These can cause conduction abnormalities. However, less known about in-hospital outcomes patients who have concurrent arrhythmias. We aimed to identify whether arrhythmia impacted these outcomes. Objective was...

Diagnosis of cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis is challenging and usually relies on a combination of clinical findings and imaging abnormalities. The case of a 53-yr-old female is described who presented with ventricular tachycardia and suspected angiosarcoma involving the right atrium and superior vena cava. A combination of magnetic resonance imaging and (18)F-2-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose-positro...