Why the study?
Patients with cardiac sarcoidosis exhibit a wide range of cardiac manifestations, and modern ultrasound technologies have enabled the identification of both typical findings and subclinical myocardial alterations.
Echocardiography can identify both typical findings like basal septal thinning and subclinical myocardial alterations in patients with cardiac sarcoidosis.
Echocardiography may detect typical and atypical cardiac sarcoidosis features in selected cases; leaves open its diagnostic role pending larger studies.
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease of unknown cause. With cardiac sarcoidosis (CS), patients represent a wide range of cardiac manifestations from subtle to overt morphological and functional abnormalities. The advent of ultrasound technologies has enabled to identify not only typical findings to CS such as basal thinning of the ventricular septum, but also subclinical myocardial alterations. Based on our recent experiences, we currently introduce a variety of myocardial manifestations evaluated by echocardiography on seven CS patients being selected. Most of the patients exhibited typical cardiac involvement and the remaining fairly unusual.
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