INTRODUCTION Sarcoidosis is a multi-systemic disorder involving various organ systems. Though cardiac involvement is uncommon it can present as life threatening arrhythmias and sudden death. CASE PRESENTATION Here we present 27 years old married female with a series of arrhythmias with no initially obvious aetiology. On further evaluation she was diagnosed as having cardiac sarcoidosis. CON...

Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic disorder of unknown etiology which is characterized by the formation of non-caseating granulomas in involved tissues. Cardiac involvement is one of the least common manifestations and it can occur at any point of time during the course of sarcoidosis. Here we present the case of 2 patients with known sarcoidosis who develop cardiac abnormalities in the absence of ...

Patients with cardiac sarcoidosis may present with clinical and morphological features similar to arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD) or cardiomyopathy (ARVC). Three cases of cardiac sarcoidosis are presented that clinically mimicked ARVD or ARVC until a pathology diagnosis of sarcoidosis was made at biopsy or autopsy. A diagnostic distinction, while often difficult to make, is im...

Introduction and purpose: Sarcoidosis is a chronic, multi-system inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology. Due to the varied clinical picture patients, diagnosis disease complicated, especially when heart affected.The aim this article review available diagnostic tools used for diagnosis, evaluation monitoring patients with suspected cardiac sarcoidosis.
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We report the case of a 27-year-old previously healthy multiparous black woman who developed congestive heart failure 5 days postpartum. It was initially diagnosed and treated as idiopathic peripartum cardiomyopathy. Five weeks later, pulmonary sarcoidosis was diagnosed by transbronchial biopsy specimen, and steroid therapy was begun. An endomyocardial biopsy specimen 1 month later indicated ca...

Background Autopsy studies report a cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis as high as 20-60%. Clinically a much lower detection rate of approximately 5% has been reported. Since cardiac events are the second most frequent cause of death, a high rate of undetected cases of cardiac involvement can be presumed, potentially leading to a fatal event as the fist manifestation. Previous studies have shown...

The prevalence of cardiac involvement in patients with systemic sarcoidosis ranges from 3.7 to 54.9% depending on the population studied (asymptomatic or symptomatic), imaging techniques used and criteria used for diagnosis.[1] Though cardiac involvement may be asymptomatic, common cardiac manifestations include conduction abnormalities usually complete atrioventricular block, ventricular arrhy...

BACKGROUND Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) is a potentially life-threatening condition. At present, there is no consensus with regard to the optimal non-invasive clinical evaluation and diagnostic procedures of cardiac involvement in patients with sarcoidosis. The aim of this study in a large homogenous Scandinavian sarcoidosis cohort was therefore to identify risk factors of cardiac involvement in pa...

Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease of unknown etiology characterized by noncaseating granulomas. Cardiac involvement often limiting patients’ prognosis. sarcoidosis can manifest with variant cardiac arrhythmias, which atrioventricular (AV)-block-related bradycardia and ventricular tachycardias are the most common. Although remains histopathological diagnosis, significance imagin...

Background: Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease of unknown origin that can cause sudden death. Objective: Electrophysiological evaluation of patients with suspected sarcoidosis with cardiac involvement. Methods: We studied 22 patients with mean age of 55.32 ± 13.13 years, diagnosed with sarcoidosis and suspected cardiac involvement. These patients underwent clinical evaluation, l...