Isolated primary cardiac sarcoidosis presenting as acute heart failure

Internal Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 71-74

  Sugizaki, Yoichiro ^a   Tanaka, Hidekazu ^a   Imanishi, Junichi ^a   Konishi, Akihide ^a   Yamashita, Tomoya ^a   Shinke, Toshiro ^a   Ishida, Tatsuro ^a   Kawai, Hiroya ^a   Hirata, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute heart failure; Cardiac sarcoidosis; Echocardiography; Myocarditis

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIURETIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPITHELIOID CELL; FEVER; GRANULOMA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CONGESTION; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYOCARDITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SARCOIDOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDNISOLONE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SARCOIDOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84871947631     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.52.8470     Document Type: Article

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