This case report highlights sudden death as a presentation of extensive myocardial sarcoidosis.
Cardiac sarcoidosis warrants consideration in unexplained sudden death; this case leaves open the need for prospective detection studies.
The case history of a 47 year old white man who died suddenly is given. At autopsy extensive replacement of the myocardium by sarcoid granulation tissue was found. The lesions of sarcoidosis were also present in the lungs, the spleen, the hilar and mesenteric lymph nodes.
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