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ANTHONY W. NISSEN, MD; JOHN B. BERTE, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1964;113(2):275-282.

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Since myocardial sarcoidosis was described in 1929,¹ there have been reported to date some 35 cases in which death was due directly to this manifestation of the disease.^2,3 In over 50% of these cases death was sudden, and often the existence of myocardial lesions had not been suspected clinically.

Because of the paucity of antemortem case studies in the literature, and because of the significant clinical incidence of cardiac abnormalities in sarcoidosis, it was felt warranted to publish our experiences with cardiac arrhythmias in five patients with sarcoidosis. While two of these patients are still living, and hence the diagnosis of myocardial sarcoidosis remains tentative, it was felt that their inclusion might be useful in indicating the course and treatment of this disease.

Report of Cases

CASE 1.

—The patient was a 21-year-old Negro woman admitted Nov 29, 1961, with complaints of chest pain, cough, and shortness of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BROOKLYN, NY

Instructor in Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center and Assistant Visiting Physician, Kings County Hospital Center (Drs. Nissen and Berte).; From the Department of Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, and the Pulmonary Disease Division, Kings County Hospital Center.

Footnotes
Received for publication April 29, 1963; accepted Aug 14.

This paper was presented in part at the 22nd Research Conference in Pulmonary Diseases of the Veterans Administration-Armed Forces, Cincinnati, Feb 3-7, 1963.

Present address: Hamden Medical Center, 295 Washington Ave, Hamden, Conn (Dr. Berte).

This work was supported in part by United States Public Health Service training grant No. HTS-5485.

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