Case report: A case of isolated cardiac sarcoidosis diagnosed by multimodal imaging and endomyocardial biopsy

Yongling Wa; Xiaowei Niu; Jizhe Xu; Gaxue Jiang; Sixiong Hu; Ming Bai

doi:10.3389/fcvm.2022.993024

Case report: A case of isolated cardiac sarcoidosis diagnosed by multimodal imaging and endomyocardial biopsy

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022 Oct 14:9:993024. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.993024. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Yongling Wa¹, Xiaowei Niu¹, Jizhe Xu¹, Gaxue Jiang¹, Sixiong Hu¹, Ming Bai¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiology, First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.

Abstract

Due to its low incidence, isolated cardiac sarcoidosis (ICS) is often missed or misdiagnosed. Herein, we describe a case of ICS in a 52-year-old male patient. Advanced imaging, including cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET), could not only screen high-risk patients for establishing diagnosis, but also guide endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) for improving cardiac disease detection rate. This case highlights the importance of multimodal imaging for screening and necessity of EMB for diagnosis.

Keywords: CMR (cardiovascular magnetic resonance); FDG (18F-fluorodeoxyglucose)-PET/CT; cardiovascular imaging (CARD); isolated cardiac sarcoidosis; multimodal imaging; myocardial endocardial biopsy.

Publication types

Case Reports