Cardiac sarcoidosis: Recurrent disease in a heart transplant patient following pulmonary tuberculosis infection

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Luk, Adriana ^a   Lee, Andrew ^b   Ahn, Eric ^b   Soor, Gursharan S ^b   Ross, Heather J ^a,c   Butany, Jagdish ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac sarcoidosis; Endomyocardial biopsy; Transplantation; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; EVEROLIMUS; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COUGHING; DEFIBRILLATOR; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDEMA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPITHELIOID CELL; EXPLANT; FEVER; FIRST DEGREE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT EXAMINATION; GIANT CELL; GIANT CELL GRANULOMA; GRANULOMA; HEART BLOOD VESSEL; HEART DILATATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART SOUND; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LUNG EXAMINATION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MULTINUCLEAR CELL; MYCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PLASMA CELL; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIMARY CARDIAC SARCOIDOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SARCOIDOSIS; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; WEIGHT GAIN; BIOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; TIME;

BIOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SARCOIDOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 77956934209     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0828-282X(10)70424-4     Document Type: Article

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