Rapidly Progressive Atrioventricular Block in a Patient with Sarcoidosis
Cardiac sarcoidosis is a major cause of death in patients with systemic sarcoidosis. Cardiac manifestations are seen in 2.3% of the patients. Atrioventricular (AV) block is one of the common manifestations of cardiac sarcoidosis. Other presentations of cardiac involvement include congestive heart fa...
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| author | Nagham Saeed Jafar Warkaa Al Shamkhani Sunil Roy Thottuvelil Narayanan Anil Kumar Rajappan |
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| description | Cardiac sarcoidosis is a major cause of death in patients with systemic sarcoidosis. Cardiac manifestations are seen in 2.3% of the patients. Atrioventricular (AV) block is one of the common manifestations of cardiac sarcoidosis. Other presentations of cardiac involvement include congestive heart failure, ventricular arrhythmias, and sudden cardiac death. The presence of AV block in young patients should raise the suspicion of sarcoidosis. AV block may be the only manifestation and patients may not have clinical evidence of pulmonary involvement. Here we describe a young male presented with exercise induced AV block rapidly progressing to complete heart block with recurrent syncope needing urgent pacemaker implantation. Factors that suggested an infiltrative process included his young age, rapidly progressive conduction abnormalities in the ECG in the absence of coronary disease, and previous history of cutaneous sarcoidosis. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-14b2127e45ec4f09b31ef46d7158d2b72025-08-20T03:54:29ZengWileyCase Reports in Cardiology2090-64042090-64122014-01-01201410.1155/2014/372936372936Rapidly Progressive Atrioventricular Block in a Patient with SarcoidosisNagham Saeed Jafar0Warkaa Al Shamkhani1Sunil Roy Thottuvelil Narayanan2Anil Kumar Rajappan3Department of Cardiology, Belhoul Speciality Hospital, P.O. Box 5527, Dubai, UAEDepartment of Cardiology, Belhoul Speciality Hospital, P.O. Box 5527, Dubai, UAEDepartment of Cardiology, Belhoul Speciality Hospital, P.O. Box 5527, Dubai, UAEDepartment of Cardiology, Belhoul Speciality Hospital, P.O. Box 5527, Dubai, UAECardiac sarcoidosis is a major cause of death in patients with systemic sarcoidosis. Cardiac manifestations are seen in 2.3% of the patients. Atrioventricular (AV) block is one of the common manifestations of cardiac sarcoidosis. Other presentations of cardiac involvement include congestive heart failure, ventricular arrhythmias, and sudden cardiac death. The presence of AV block in young patients should raise the suspicion of sarcoidosis. AV block may be the only manifestation and patients may not have clinical evidence of pulmonary involvement. Here we describe a young male presented with exercise induced AV block rapidly progressing to complete heart block with recurrent syncope needing urgent pacemaker implantation. Factors that suggested an infiltrative process included his young age, rapidly progressive conduction abnormalities in the ECG in the absence of coronary disease, and previous history of cutaneous sarcoidosis.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/372936 |
| spellingShingle | Nagham Saeed Jafar Warkaa Al Shamkhani Sunil Roy Thottuvelil Narayanan Anil Kumar Rajappan Rapidly Progressive Atrioventricular Block in a Patient with Sarcoidosis Case Reports in Cardiology |
| title | Rapidly Progressive Atrioventricular Block in a Patient with Sarcoidosis |
| title_full | Rapidly Progressive Atrioventricular Block in a Patient with Sarcoidosis |
| title_fullStr | Rapidly Progressive Atrioventricular Block in a Patient with Sarcoidosis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rapidly Progressive Atrioventricular Block in a Patient with Sarcoidosis |
| title_short | Rapidly Progressive Atrioventricular Block in a Patient with Sarcoidosis |
| title_sort | rapidly progressive atrioventricular block in a patient with sarcoidosis |
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