Cardiac sarcoidosis, don't we forget about it in diagnostics?

Abstract

Sarcoidosis is a rare systemic inflammatory disease, with multiorgan involvement and the exact cause of sarcoidosis is unknown. The most commonly affected are lungs, skin or lymph nodes.

Extrapulmonary involvement is less common. Especially cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) has variable clinical manifestations, causing heart failure (HF), arrhythmias, and involvement of pericardium.

Diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis depends on more complex imaging methods such as myocardial magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) and positron emission tomography (PET/CT). In addition to standard cardiology procedures, corticosteroid therapy or other immunotherapy should be considered.

Keywords

• Atrioventricular block
• cardiac sarcoidosis
• corticosteroid therapy
• heart failure
• sarcoidosis