Right ventricular sarcoidosis: Is it time for updated diagnostic criteria?

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 203-207

  Vakil, Kairav ^a   Minami, Elina ^a   Fishbein, Daniel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia diagnosis; Cardiomyopathies complications; Cardiovascular; Diagnosis; Diagnostic techniques; Differential; Right diagnosis etiology physiopathology; Sarcoidosis diagnosis physiopathology; Ventricular dysfunction

Indexed keywords

CARVEDILOL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; DOBUTAMINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GADOLINIUM; GALLIUM; LISINOPRIL; THALLIUM; CARDIOTONIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CASE REPORT; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; NONISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; RIGHT VENTRICULAR SARCOIDOSIS; SARCOIDOSIS; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ETIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; ATRIAL FLUTTER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SARCOIDOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84898899792     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14503/THIJ-12-3086     Document Type: Article

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