Syncope in a Pregnant Woman: Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy and Presumed Cardiac Sarcoidosis

Cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis is an uncommon manifestation of the disease process. Diagnosis and treatment during pregnancy can be challenging due to life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. We describe a case of a 43-year-old, 21-week pregnant woman who presented after 2 episodes of syncope a...

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Autores principales: Agrawal, Akanksha, Works-Fleming, Faith, Isiadinso, Ijeoma, Ogunniyi, Modele O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Peripartum Cardiovascular Disease Mini-Focus Issue
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8301714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34316974
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.12.005
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author Agrawal, Akanksha
Works-Fleming, Faith
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Ogunniyi, Modele O.
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description Cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis is an uncommon manifestation of the disease process. Diagnosis and treatment during pregnancy can be challenging due to life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. We describe a case of a 43-year-old, 21-week pregnant woman who presented after 2 episodes of syncope and was diagnosed with presumed cardiac sarcoidosis. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)
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spelling pubmed-83017142021-07-26 Syncope in a Pregnant Woman: Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy and Presumed Cardiac Sarcoidosis Agrawal, Akanksha Works-Fleming, Faith Isiadinso, Ijeoma Ogunniyi, Modele O. JACC Case Rep Peripartum Cardiovascular Disease Mini-Focus Issue Cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis is an uncommon manifestation of the disease process. Diagnosis and treatment during pregnancy can be challenging due to life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. We describe a case of a 43-year-old, 21-week pregnant woman who presented after 2 episodes of syncope and was diagnosed with presumed cardiac sarcoidosis. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.) Elsevier 2020-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8301714/ /pubmed/34316974 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.12.005 Text en © 2020 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Syncope in a Pregnant Woman: Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy and Presumed Cardiac Sarcoidosis
title Syncope in a Pregnant Woman: Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy and Presumed Cardiac Sarcoidosis
title_full Syncope in a Pregnant Woman: Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy and Presumed Cardiac Sarcoidosis
title_fullStr Syncope in a Pregnant Woman: Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy and Presumed Cardiac Sarcoidosis
title_full_unstemmed Syncope in a Pregnant Woman: Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy and Presumed Cardiac Sarcoidosis
title_short Syncope in a Pregnant Woman: Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy and Presumed Cardiac Sarcoidosis
title_sort syncope in a pregnant woman: infiltrative cardiomyopathy and presumed cardiac sarcoidosis
topic Peripartum Cardiovascular Disease Mini-Focus Issue
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8301714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34316974
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.12.005
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