Abrishami Bob, O'Connel Casey, Sharma Om
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Southern California/Los Angeles County Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90012, USA.
Curr Opin Pulm Med. 2004 Sep;10(5):397-400. doi: 10.1097/01.mcp.0000136403.32451.aa.
The purpose of discussing this rare clinical presentation is to provide an opportunity to review difficulties encountered in diagnosing myocardial sarcoidosis.
Recent advances in diagnosis and management of cardiac sarcoidosis are discussed in this article.
A 45-year old man was brought to the emergency department after he fainted in a marketplace. An electrocardiogram showed a complete heart block; an echocardiogram revealed a large atrial mass consistent with the appearance of a myxoma. A biopsy of the cardiac mass showed noncaseating granuloma.