Cardiac Sarcoidosis Masquerading as Right Ventricular Dysplasia |
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Authors: | PETER OTT,FRANK I. MARCUS,RICHARD E. SOBONYA,FRED MORADY&dagger ,BRADLEY P. KNIGHT&dagger , CHARLES E. FUENZALIDA&Dagger |
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Affiliation: | From the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona;, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan;, and the Sarver Heart Center, Denver, Colorado |
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Abstract: | Patients with cardiac sarcoidosis may present with clinical and morphological features similar to arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD) or cardiomyopathy (ARVC). Three cases of cardiac sarcoidosis are presented that clinically mimicked ARVD or ARVC until a pathology diagnosis of sarcoidosis was made at biopsy or autopsy. A diagnostic distinction, while often difficult to make, is important since treatment with corticosteroids may benefit those with sarcoidosis but is not expected to be useful in cases with ARVD or ARVC. (PACE 2003; 26[Pt. I]:1498–1503) |
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Keywords: | sarcoidosis arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy ventricular tachycardia |
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