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European Heart Journal 1991 12(Supplement D):26-27; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/12.suppl_D.26
Copyright © 1991 by the European Society of Cardiology.
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© 1991 The European Society of Cardiology

Sarcoid heart disease—results of follow-up investigations

H. Schaedel, D. Kirsten, A. Schmidt, H. Schmidt and H.-J. Strauss

Zentralklinik für Herz-und Lungenkrankheiten 0-5303 Bad Berka, Germany

Address for correspondence: MR Dr sc. med. Hermann Schaedel, Zentralk-linik für Herz-und Lungenkrankheiten, 0-5303 Bad Berka, Germany

52 patients thought to have sarcoid heart involvement have been followed up. By administration of a standardized glucocorticoid therapy we demonstrated improvement of patients' symptoms, ECG disturbances, thallium scan defects of left heart muscle and there was 60-70% regression of pulmonary sarcoidosis. There was a low death rate. We conclude that our diagnostic measures are reliable, and that glucocorticoid therapy is efficacious in the early stages of the disease.

Key Words: Cardiac sarcoidosis • electrocardiography • echocardiography • thallium scan • follow-up investigations


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