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

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

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 l...

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Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-03-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
cardiac sarcoidosis
giant cell myocarditis
inflammatory heart disease
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.120.019415

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