Heart transplantation for advanced heart failure due to cardiac sarcoidosis.

CONCLUSIONS: Carefully selected patients with advanced heart failure due to cardiac sarcoidosis have an acceptable outcome after transplantation. Cardiologists should be aware that reported experience of transplantation for cardiac sarcoidosis mostly represents isolated cardiac sarcoidosis that was only diagnosed at pathological examination of the explanted heart. PMID: 26422565 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26422565?dopt=Abstract

Source: Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases - October 3, 2015 Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Sarcoidosis Vasc Diffuse Lung Dis Source Type: research