The intricacies of cardiac sarcoidosis: a case report involving the coronary arteries and a review of the literature

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 222-227

  Butany, Jagdish ^a,b,c   Bahl, Nina E ^a   Morales, Kathy ^a   Thangaroopan, Molly ^a   Ross, Heather ^a,b,c   Rao, Vivek ^a,b,c   Leong, Shaun W ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac sarcoidosis; Coronary artery sarcoid; Heart transplant; Infiltrative heart disease; Inflammatory heart disease; Sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATION; EXPLANT; HEART DILATATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CORONARY VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 33745828666     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2006.02.005     Document Type: Article

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