Open Heart: Tofacitinib in the treatment of cardiac sarcoidosis: towards steroid-sparing disease management Background Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) creates complex treatment challenges, especially for patients who fail to respond to immunosuppressive drugs, including second-line tumour necrosis factor ... Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging may help physicians make decisions about which patients with suspected cardiac sarcoidosis require an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) to ... In a study of patients with cutaneous sarcoidosis, ECG abnormalities identified all cases of cardiac involvement, demonstrating 100% sensitivity and 100% negative predictive value.
Researchers ... EurekAlert!: MRI-based method identifies high-risk cardiac sarcoidosis patients who would benefit from defibrillators MRI-based method identifies high-risk cardiac sarcoidosis patients who would benefit from defibrillators Medscape: Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG Clinical course of sarcoidosis in dependence on HLA-DRB1 allele frequencies, inflammatory markers, and the presence of M. tuberculosis DNA fragments. Relationship between basal thinning of the ...
