We then looked at using a PET scan to stage the disease ... patients as our previous study who had been diagnosed with cardiac sarcoidosis and looked at the images again. We tried to define ...

In patients with fibrosis and inflammation in diseases such as cardiac sarcoidosis, gadolinium gets hung up in the heart, resulting in late gadolinium enhancement. FDG-PET uses the radionuclide ...

The bottom image shows end-stage fibrosis with extensive ... for biopsy and for the detection of active cardiac sarcoidosis. 58 Panel D shows an FDG PET-CT scan of the heart, with focal areas ...

We describe a patient with cardiac sarcoidosis who was diagnosed with ... and develops over a longer period of time. The early stages of this condition can be misdiagnosed as ARVD/C if there ...

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface ... diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis may have been incorrect. Repeat cardiac FDG PET revealed a marked ...

This condition is known as cardiac sarcoidosis (CS ... Endomyocardial biopsy (EMB), FDG-PET scans, and cardiac MRI are some of the diagnostic methods used but significant gaps remain in diagnosing ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine is now prospectively collecting MR and PET images from patients with cardiac sarcoidosis, and Shade would like to use these images to see if the researchers’ combined model and ...

Imaging investigations for cardiac sarcoidosis include transthoracic echocardiography ... 1, 2 A fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) scan was ordered but unfortunately not completed ...

However, until now there has been no animal model that replicates sarcoidosis in the heart. Cardiac sarcoidosis in ... patients with progressive end-stage sarcoidosis also showed these SHP2 ...

These findings were published recently in JAMA Cardiology. Cardiac sarcoidosis is a rare inflammatory heart disease that can result in rhythm disturbances and heart failure. Sarcoidosis is ...