Cardiac sarcoidosis and heart transplantation: A report of four consecutive patients

Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-59

  Milman, Nils ^a,b   Andersen, C B ^a   Mortensen, S A ^a   Sander, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Righospitalet ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dilated cardiomyopathy; Heart block; Heart transplantation; Sarcoidosis; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GANCICLOVIR; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART BLOCK; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART SARCOIDOSIS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SARCOIDOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; SARCOIDOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 56349168122     PISSN: 11240490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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