Cardiac sarcoidosis
Long fasting is effective in inhibiting physiological myocardial 18F-FDG uptake and for evaluating active lesions of cardiac sarcoidosis
... Background: F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) is a promising modality for detecting active lesions of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS). However, determining whether 18 F-FDG uptake in ...
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Risk stratification for major adverse cardiac events and ventricular tachyarrhythmias by cardiac MRI in patients with cardiac sarcoidosis
... has been closely associated with prognosis. 3 4 A previous study reported that sudden cardiac death (SCD) occurred in two-thirds of patients with histological evidence of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS). 5 ...
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Cardiac sarcoidosis resembling panic disorder: a case report
... between sarcoidosis and psychiatric disor- ...with cardiac sarcoidosis also have depression, while 5% also have an anxiety disorder ...with cardiac sarcoidosis causing panic attacks in ...
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Cardiac sarcoidosis
... Abstract: Cardiac sarcoidosis is a rare but life-threatening condition, requiring a high degree of clinical suspicion and low threshold for investigation to make the ...The cardiac manifestations ...
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A Unique Case of Complete Atrioventricular Block Rapidly Progressing to Diastolic and Systolic Dysfunction in Cardiac Sarcoidosis
... a cardiac pacemaker or car- dioverter defibrillator [1, 2, ...with sarcoidosis; they are however nonspecific and nondiagnostic [1, ...of cardiac uptake on gallium-67 scintigraphy in our patient, his ...
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High Degree Atrioventricular Block Complicated Cardiac Sarcoidosis: Case Report
... Cardiac Sarcoidosis (CS) is a rare and deceptive disease affecting young adults with catastrophic results including life threatening arrhythmia, congestive heart failure and even sudden death as the initial ...
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Discrepancy between significant fibrosis and active inflammation in patients with cardiac sarcoidosis: combined and image fusion analysis of cardiac magnetic resonance and 18F fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography
... As shown in Fig. 5a, some segments showed active inflammation as segmental SUV- max around 15–20 with relatively preserved wall kinesis. Two case reports had pre- sented the active cardiac sarcoidosis with ...
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A dual tracer 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT and 18F-FDG PET/CT pilot study for detection of cardiac sarcoidosis
... concurrent cardiac MRI scans of all patients in the present study is also a major limita- ...with cardiac sarcoidosis using the JMHW criteria as a reference ...summary, cardiac MRI is an ...
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Which is the proper reference tissue for measuring the change in FDG PET metabolic volume of cardiac sarcoidosis before and after steroid therapy?
... This study had some methodological limitations. First, the study was retrospective from a single center and the sample size was relatively small, partly because the study focus was patients with active cardiac ...
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Somatostatin receptor based PET/CT in patients with the suspicion of cardiac sarcoidosis: an initial comparison to cardiac MRI
... affected, cardiac involvement is present in up to one third of patients [2, 3] and has been reported as the second leading cause of death by sarcoidosis in the United States and the leading cause in Japan ...
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High rate of cardiac sarcoidosis presenting with cutaneous plaque type sarcoidosis in 18F fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography computed tomography: a case series
... found in four patients, and viral hepatitis was detected in three. In our series, two patients (17%) had a history of Mycobacterium infections with positive tuberculin tests and QuantiFERON® TB2G tests (Cellestis, ...
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Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging indeterminate/negative cardiac sarcoidosis revealed by 18F fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography: two case reports and a review of the literature
... A 37-year-old white woman presented to an out-patient Cardiology unit for investigation of dizziness. Following a review a 24-hour Holter monitor found her to be in CHB. This occurred on a background of pulmonary sar- ...
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Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia Due to Cardiac Sarcoidosis in a Child
... In view of the congestive heart failure, digoxin was cautiously administered, but this was followed by the recurrence of the ventricular arrhythmias (isolated premature beats and runs of[r] ...
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Hybrid cardiac imaging using PET/MRI: a joint position statement by the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR) and the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM)
... in sarcoidosis, often mani- festing in arrhythmia and heart ...of cardiac dysfunction, but also immunosuppressive therapy, which needs to be carefully balanced against potential side ...of cardiac ...
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Utility of cardiac magnetic resonance in assessing right-sided heart failure in sarcoidosis
... to sarcoidosis in- filtration of the RV ...by sarcoidosis led to immediate immunosuppressive therapy in accordance with general recommendations for cardiac sarcoidosis, and insertion of an ...
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Common symptoms for a rare disease in a girl with sarcoidosis: a case report
... pernio); cardiac sarcoidosis (when it causes cardiomyop- athy, dysrhythmias, or atrioventricular block); brain or spinal cord sarcoidosis (except for isolated VII cranial nerve palsy or mild acute ...
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Virus-Negative Active Lymphocytic Myocarditis Progressing to a Fibrotic Stage
... failure predicted idiopathic giant cell myocarditis, whereas presentation with heart block or more than nine weeks of symptoms is associated with cardiac sarcoidosis. There is still an open debate as to ...
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Comparative evaluation of 18F-FLT and 18F-FDG for detecting cardiac and extra-cardiac thoracic involvement in patients with newly diagnosed sarcoidosis
... detecting cardiac sarcoidosis indicated relatively high sensitivity (79–100%), which is also comparable to that of the present study (85%), but low specificity (38–100%) ...diagnosing cardiac sar- ...
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... and cardiac contractile ab- normalities in the last few years, known as Takotsubo syndrome or a brocken heart ...with sarcoidosis and is manifested as a cardiomyopathy with loss of muscular function or ...
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A review of pulmonary sarcoidosis
... for cardiac sarcoidosis, an ophthalmological exam for eye involvement, a liver function test for hepatic disease, urea and electrolytes, as well as serum and urinary calcium, are all necessary, as sarcoid ...
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