The difficult diagnosis of isolated cardiac sarcoidosis: Usefulness of an integrated MRI and PET approach

Heart

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 89-90

  Galati, Giuseppe ^a   Leone, Ornella ^b   Rapezzi, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; HEART DISEASE; HEART EDEMA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPOKINESIA; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART PALPITATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS; NOTE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SARCOIDOSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 84891836822     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2013-304237     Document Type: Note

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