Sarcoid heart disease--results of follow-up investigations.
case_series · Level IV
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Cardiomyopathies
- Sarcoidosis