Remaining challenges in the diagnosis of early stage cardiac sarcoidosis

Despite the requirement for histopathological evidence to make a definite diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis, the sensitivity of endomyocardial biopsy is still low. Recently, Japanese Circulation Society suggests a new strategy that patients diagnosed clinically do not require the endomyocardial biops...

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Autores principales: Tsushima, Takahiro, Sasaki, Shunsuke, Yuda, Satoshi, Ohta, Masayuki, Cammack, Ivor, Sato, Hiroyuki, Hayashi, Kentaro, Hirokami, Mitsugu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
Materias:
Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31110736
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2114
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Sumario:Despite the requirement for histopathological evidence to make a definite diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis, the sensitivity of endomyocardial biopsy is still low. Recently, Japanese Circulation Society suggests a new strategy that patients diagnosed clinically do not require the endomyocardial biopsy evidence. Physicians should familiarize themselves with such paradigm shifts.

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