1983
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.50.5.498
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Sarcoid heart disease.

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“…Among autopsied cases, 78% of patients with sarcoidosis showed cardiac lesions [1]. Cardiac involvement has been detected with increasing frequency and is associated with a poor prognosis [2][3][4][5][6]. A previous study found sudden death to be the most common manifestation of cardiac sarcoidosis [7].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Among autopsied cases, 78% of patients with sarcoidosis showed cardiac lesions [1]. Cardiac involvement has been detected with increasing frequency and is associated with a poor prognosis [2][3][4][5][6]. A previous study found sudden death to be the most common manifestation of cardiac sarcoidosis [7].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Complete heart block occurs in 23 -30% of patients; of these patients, 68% had episodes of syncope [12]. Right bundle brunch block (RBBB) is more common than left bundle brunch block, [14] and in one study RBBB was detected in 57% of patients with documented cardiac sarcoidosis [15]. Fleming noted that patients with cardiac sarcoidosis who develop complete heart block usually developed it at a much younger age than those with idiopathic heart block [16].…”
Section: Conduction Disordermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…. .suggests that many of us have had, and many indeed still have, a blind spot for this diagnosis'' [14]. More than 20 years passed since that statement and the diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis still a challenge for physicians.…”
Section: Diagnostic Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Entsprechend der Muskelmasse finden sich die Granulome am häufigs-ten im Septum und der freien Wand des linken Ventrikels und selten im Vorhofmyokard. Supraventrikuläre Herzrhythmusstö-rungen sind eher indirekte Folge einer ventrikulären Verände-rung als Zeichen einer Infiltration der Vorhofwand [5,6,13,14,22,23 Der Anteil pathologischer Befunde bei der Thalliumszintigraphie schwankt dabei zwischen 13 und 75 %, je nach Gröûe und Zusammensetzung des untersuchten Patientenkollektiv.…”
Section: Klinikunclassified
“…Yazaki [42] beschreibt bei 95 Patienten mit Herzsarkoidose in 41 % eine zusätzliche Augen-und in 16 % eine Hautbeteiligung. Fleming fand bei 20 obduzierten Patienten in 35 % eine zusätzliche Leber-und Milzinfiltration [13].…”
Section: Beteiligung Anderer Organsystemeunclassified