Lymph Vessel Proliferation on Cardiac Biopsy May Help in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Sarcoidosis

Lymph Vessel Proliferation on Cardiac Biopsy May Help in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Sarcoidosis

Background The diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) is challenging because endomyocardial biopsy has only a 20% to 30% sensitivity rate for diagnosis and it presents with similar clinical features of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Lymphatic vessel proliferation in pulmonary sarcoidosis ha...

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Main Authors: Yukiko Oe, Hatsue Ishibashi‐Ueda, Taka‐aki Matsuyama, Yen‐Hong Kuo, Toshiyuki Nagai, Yoshihiko Ikeda, Keiko Ohta‐Ogo, Teruo Noguchi, Toshihisa Anzai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-01-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
cardiac sarcoidosis
D2‐40 immunostaining
endomyocardial biopsy
lymphatic vessel
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.118.010967

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