Isolated cardiac sarcoidosis diagnosed by electroanatomic voltage mapping-guided endomyocardial biopsy combined with magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography

Journal of Cardiology Cases

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 107-110

  Kawakatsu, Naomi ^a   Suzuki, Atsushi ^a   Serizawa, Naoki ^a   Suzuki, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ejima, Koichiro ^a   Shiga, Tsuyoshi ^a   Fukushima, Kenji ^a   Momose, Mitsuru ^a   Uto, Kenta ^a   Shoda, Morio ^a   Hagiwara, Nobuhisa ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Isolated cardiac sarcoidosis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CARVEDILOL; ENALAPRIL; GALLIUM 67; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROANATOMIC VOLTAGE MAPPING GUIDED ENDOMYOCARDIAL BIOPSY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; GRANULOMA; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; STEROID THERAPY; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84992126228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18785409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jccase.2016.06.002     Document Type: Article

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