Cardiology

Sarcoidosis

Questions discussed in this category

How soon would you repeat PET/CT in a patient with cardiac sarcoid after starting treatment with infliximab?

Pre-treatment troponin was mildly elevated, while ILR2 receptor, ACE, CRP, ESR were normal.

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How would you manage cardiac sarcoid with intolerance/contraindications to methotrexate, azathioprine, and mycophenolate/mycophenolic acid and that has proven refractory to adalimumab and infliximab as determined by PET?

2 Answers available

What is your approach to monitoring patients with cardiac sarcoid while tapering immunosuppression?

Do you obtain serial cardiac PET scans?

1 Answer available

What is your approach to a patient who has a cardiac PET scan suggestive of sarcoid but no other supporting evidence of a diagnosis of sarcoid?

Do you typically push for myocardial biopsy in this case?

1 Answer available

What steroid sparing agent do you use for treatment of cardiac sarcoidosis?

Does the type of cardiac involvement impact this choice?

2 Answers available

How do you manage calcium and vitamin D supplementation in patients with sarcoidosis on chronic steroids?

1 Answer available

Papers discussed in this category

Semin Arthritis Rheum, 2020 Jun

TNF-alpha inhibition for the treatment of cardiac sarcoidosis.

Intern Med, 2014 Dec 01

Treatment with methotrexate and low-dose corticosteroids in sarcoidosis patients with cardiac lesions.

J Am Heart Assoc, 2019 Sep 06

Long-Term Corticosteroid-Sparing Immunosuppression for Cardiac Sarcoidosis.

Clin Rheumatol, 2007 Mar 30

Cardiac sarcoidosis responding to monotherapy with infliximab.

Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG, 2014-04-18

The WASOG Sarcoidosis Organ Assessment Instrument: An update of a previous clinical tool.

Heart rhythm, 2014-07

HRS expert consensus statement on the diagnosis and management of arrhythmias associated with cardiac sarcoidosis.

Circulation journal : official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society, 2019 Oct 09

JCS 2016 Guideline on Diagnosis and Treatment of Cardiac Sarcoidosis　- Digest Version.

Arrhythmia & electrophysiology review, 2020 Dec

Management of Cardiac Sarcoidosis in 2020.

International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature, 2021 Apr 29

Non-steroidal treatment of cardiac sarcoidosis: A systematic review.

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