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Cardiac Sarcoidosis: Sorting Fact from Fiction in This Rare Cardiomyopathy
Sarcoidosis is a rare condition of granulomatous infiltration of many tissues of the body, including the heart. Cardiac sarcoidosis has been challenging to study, as it is often asymptomatic, although the initial presentation can be sudden cardiac death.
Indranee Rajapreyar, Elizabeth Langlois
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Acute Rheumatic Fever Without Pharyngitis: A Case Report
ABSTRACT An 18‐year‐old man presented with fatigue and polyarthralgia refractory to nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). He had no history of sore throat or other upper respiratory symptoms. Reactive arthritis was initially suspected. However, persistent symptoms, fever, polyarthritis, a cardiac murmur, atrioventricular block, and an elevated
Hiroki Suzuyama +7 more
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A Case of Severe Cardiac Sarcoidosis with Minimal Pulmonary Involvement
Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disease of unknown etiology. Although sarcoidosis is a systemic disease, there appears to be a predilection for involvement of certain organs.
Nobby C. Mambo, Mark R. Fowler
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Imaging for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Cardiac Sarcoidosis [PDF]
Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous condition, primarily affecting the lungs and thoracic lymph nodes. Clinical cardiac involvement might occur in 2 to 5% of patients with sarcoidosis, and can be associated with serious complications including heart block ...
Ghazaleh Mehdipoor +5 more
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Sarcoidosis with heart involvement: a rare association of terrible prognosis, a report of two cases
Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic disorder of unknown etiology which is characterized by the formation of noncaseatinggranulomas in involved tissues. Cardiac involvement is one of the least common manifestations and it can occur at any point of time during ...
Asma Kefi +6 more
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ABSTRACT Background Despite its clinical importance in primary care, the prevalence and levels of multimorbidity among patients receiving home‐based medical care remain poorly characterized, and its potential impact on emergency home visits is unclear.
Gen Nakayama +9 more
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Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease with cardiac involvement occurring in 20-50% of cases. Cardiogenic stroke caused by cardiac sarcoidosis, especially PCA infarction, is a rare clinical presentation that necessitates timely diagnosis and may warrant ...
Mohankumar Kurukumbi +3 more
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Fulminant cardiogenic shock due to cardiac sarcoidosis
This case describes a 57-year-old man with unrecognized cardiac sarcoidosis who presented with progressive heart failure leading to cardiogenic shock. He required extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) as a bridge to orthotopic heart transplantation.
Robert T. Cole +9 more
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Introduction Isolated cardiac sarcoidosis (ICS) is characterized by a lack of the apparent extra-cardiac involvement seen in systemic cardiac sarcoidosis (SCS) and is being increasingly recognized as a distinct clinical phenotype of cardiac sarcoidosis ...
Raheel Ahmed +40 more
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Diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis: an era of paradigm shift.
Cardiac sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disease that may affect any organ, including the heart. Diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis is challenging, given the varied and non-specific clinical presentation and limited sensitivity and specificity of available ...
Sharma, Apurva +4 more
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