Manifestations and Outcome of Cardiac Sarcoidosis and Idiopathic Giant Cell Myocarditis by 25‐Year Nationwide Cohorts

Autor: Hanna‐Kaisa Nordenswan, Jukka Lehtonen, Kaj Ekström, Anne Räisänen‐Sokolowski, Mikko I. Mäyränpää, Tapani Vihinen, Heikki Miettinen, Kari Kaikkonen, Petri Haataja, Tuomas Kerola, Tuomas T. Rissanen, Jorma Kokkonen, Aleksi Alatalo, Päivi Pietilä‐Effati, Seppo Utriainen, Markku Kupari
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, Vol 10, Iss 6 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2047-9980
88217914
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.120.019415
Popis: Background Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) and giant cell myocarditis (GCM) share many histopathologic and clinical features. Whether they are parts of a one‐disease continuum has been discussed. Methods and Results We compared medical record data of 351 CS and 28 GCM cases diagnosed in Finland since the late 1980s and followed until February 2018 for a composite end point of cardiac death, aborted sudden death, and heart transplantation. Heart failure was the presenting manifestation in 50% versus 15% (P
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