2017
DOI: 10.20418/jrcd.vol3no3.266
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Electrocardiographic abnormalities in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis (RCD code: III)

Abstract: Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized by the presence of noncaseating granulomas. Etiology of the disease remains unknown. From 3.7% to 54.9% patients with extra-cardiac sarcoidosis have asymptomatic heart involvement. Conduction abnormalities, arrhythmias and congestive heart failure are the most common clinical manifestations of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS). The aim of the study was to evaluate the type and frequency of electrocardiographic abnormalities in patients with pulmonary sarcoido… Show more

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“…Lyme Borreliosis is an immune mediated disease secondary to exposure to Borrelia burgdorferi. 4,5 It is a complex disease where both the specific disease causing organism and the host responses appear to affect the disease course. 14 Different strains of Borrelia are exist with clinical manifestations of Lyme disease (and co-infections) varying between the US and Europe, and characterised by a diverse range of acute and chronic manifestations.…”
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“…Lyme Borreliosis is an immune mediated disease secondary to exposure to Borrelia burgdorferi. 4,5 It is a complex disease where both the specific disease causing organism and the host responses appear to affect the disease course. 14 Different strains of Borrelia are exist with clinical manifestations of Lyme disease (and co-infections) varying between the US and Europe, and characterised by a diverse range of acute and chronic manifestations.…”
Section: History Of the Diseasementioning
confidence: 99%
“…32 The infecting pathogen can spread to organs and other tissues, and can severely affect the patients nervous system, joints, heart and skin. 4,5,11,26,32 Arthritis is the most common late state symptom in the US, but in Europe, radiculomyelitis, peripheral neuropathy, or chronic skin involvement (acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans) is more common. 14 Lyme carditis is a real diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for clinicians.…”
Section: History Of the Diseasementioning
confidence: 99%
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