Figart Michael W, Suresh Krithika, Bassilly David, Mugerwa Jude
Internal Medicine, Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center, Johnstown, USA.
Cardiology, Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center, Johnstown, USA.
Cureus. 2021 Oct 11;13(10):e18685. doi: 10.7759/cureus.18685. eCollection 2021 Oct.
Sarcoidosis is a common disease with the incidence of cardiac involvement varying. Cardiac sarcoidosis should be kept on the differential when young patients present with acute heart failure, conduction abnormalities or new arrhythmia. Cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis must be diagnosed early and treated aggressively. Here we present a patient who presented with shortness of breath and was found to have significant heart failure with reduced ejection fraction caused by sarcoidosis with cardiac involvement. She was treated with optimization of medical therapy for heart failure and eventually required implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) placement.
结节病是一种常见疾病,心脏受累的发生率各不相同。当年轻患者出现急性心力衰竭、传导异常或新发心律失常时,应将心脏结节病纳入鉴别诊断。结节病的心脏受累必须尽早诊断并积极治疗。在此,我们报告一例患者,该患者因结节病累及心脏出现呼吸急促,被发现患有射血分数降低的严重心力衰竭。她接受了优化的心力衰竭药物治疗,最终需要植入植入式心脏复律除颤器(ICD)。