Myocardial Sarcoid, Complete Heart Block and Aortic Stenosis

Case Reports1 October 1959MYOCARDIAL SARCOID, COMPLETE HEART BLOCK AND AORTIC STENOSISROBERT E. BOTTI, M.D., FRANK E. YOUNG, M.D.ROBERT E. BOTTI, M.D., FRANK E. YOUNG, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-51-4-811 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptComplete heart block in a young adult may pose a difficult diagnostic and therapeutic problem. The subject of this case report illustrates these difficulties and is of unusual interest because of the autopsy finding of myocardial sarcoid in addition to the clinically apparent rheumatic heart disease with aortic stenosis.CASE REPORTA 32 year old white female was admitted to University Hospitals of Cleveland on August 8, 1957, having had fainting spells of six months' duration.This patient had been asymptomatic until six months before admission, when she suddenly became unconscious for a few seconds while playing cards. She awoke...Bibliography1. HudsonChobanianRelman JBAVAS: Hypoaldosteronism, New England J. Med. 257: 529, 1957. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. TedeschiWagnerPani CGBMDC: Studies in rheumatic fever, Arch. Path. 60: 408, 1955. MedlineGoogle Scholar3. PentonMillerLevine GBHSA: Some clinical features of complete heart block, Circulation 13: 801, 1956. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. Place EH: Heart in diphtheria and scarlet fever, New England J. Med. 207: 864, 1932. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Cleveland, Ohio*Received for publication June 2, 1958.From the Departments of Medicine, University Hospitals and the Institute of Pathology, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.†Supported in part by training grant of the U. S. Public Health Service.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Frank E. Young, M.D., Institute of Pathology, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byCardiac sarcoidosis: Diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic considerationsAnatomie und pathologische Anatomie des spezifischen Reizbildungs- und Erregungsleitungssystems sowie des kontraktilen MyokardsInfiltrative cardiomyopathy with conduction disease and ventricular arrhythmia: Electrophysiologic and pathologic correlationsSarcoidosis of the cardiac conducting systemClinicopathologic correlations. De subitaneis mortibus. XXV. 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