Presumed sarcoid choroiditis: referral pathways, demographic characteristics and disease phenotypes.
To audit the current clinical process whereby patients with presumed sarcoid choroiditis are referred for systemic investigation. To describe demographic and phenotypic heterogeneity of patients clinically diagnosed with presumed sarcoid choroiditis, and to compare between those who were concordant…
Can Systemic Sarcoidosis and Genetic Cardiomyopathy Coexist?
Genetic cardiomyopathies and cardiac sarcoidosis share overlapping features, complicating diagnosis when both conditions coexist. We describe 3 patients with filamin C-associated, plakophilin-2-associated, and MYBPC3-associated cardiomyopathies who were later diagnosed with extracardiac sarcoidosis.…
Delayed high-grade atrioventricular block following Harmony transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement in a patient with repaired tetralogy of Fallot and systemic sarcoidosis.
Transcatheter pulmonary valve implantation yields favourable outcomes, and clinically significant conduction disturbances are rare. A 52-year-old man with repaired tetralogy of Fallot, systemic sarcoidosis, and pre-existing conduction disease developed atrioventricular block requiring permanent paci…
[The internet as a source of information for patients with sarcoidosis].
The internet is often used as a source of information by patients with sarcoidosis, but its reliability has not yet been comprehensively analysed. The aim of this study was to analyse the content and quality of German-language information on sarcoidosis available on the internet. All German-language…
Surgical Cardiac Sympathetic Denervation in Active Inflammatory Cardiac Sarcoidosis: Rethinking Conventional Timing Paradigms.
Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disorder characterized by noncaseating granulomas, with clinically overt cardiac involvement occurring in 5% to 10% of cases. Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) may present with malignant ventricular arrhythmias and electrical storm. A previously healthy 35-year-old man…
18F-FDG -PET/CT in cardiac sarcoidosis: Diagnosis, therapy monitoring, and future directions.
Sarcoidosis represents a multisystem granulomatous disease of unknown etiology that is described by the formation of non-caseating granuloma in various organs. One out of four patients may have cardiac involvement or even isolated form that confers an increased mortality rate in these patients. 18F-…