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The chameleon of cardiology: cardiac sarcoidosis before and after heart transplantation

Authors :
Ali Amr
Weng-Tein Gi
Sonja Hamed
Elham Kayvanpour
Omid Shirvani Samani
Jan Haas
Philipp Ehlermann
Benjamin Meder
Farbod Sedaghat-Hamedani
Esther Herpel
Johannes Riffel
Tobias Miersch
Hugo A. Katus
Lutz Frankenstein
Michael M. Kreusser
Source :
ESC Heart Failure, ESC Heart Failure, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 692-696 (2020)
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2019.

Abstract

Cardiac sarcoidosis is a chronic inflammatory disease with a large spectrum of symptoms that can mimic diseases such as dilated, hypertrophic, or arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies. It can be asymptomatic but can also present with ventricular arrhythmias, conduction disease, and heart failure (HF) or even sudden cardiac death (SCD). We present here the case of a patient transplanted due to end‐stage arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), fulfilling the task force criteria. A few years after successful heart transplantation (HTX), the patient developed similar symptoms and morphofunctional changes of the heart, which led to critical re‐evaluation of his primary diagnosis.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20555822
Volume :
7
Issue :
2
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
ESC Heart Failure
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....241d263873d29479fdb79f797abe334f