A case of cardiac sarcoidosis with successful heart transplantation after COVID-19 infection

Mileydis Alonso; Yelenis Seijo De Armas; Jose R Sleiman; Luis Hernandez; Jose L Baez-Escudero; Viviana Navas; Mauricio Velez; Juan Viles-Gonzalez; Pablo A Bejarano; Jaime Hernandez-Monfort

doi:10.1016/j.jccase.2021.07.015

A case of cardiac sarcoidosis with successful heart transplantation after COVID-19 infection

J Cardiol Cases. 2022 Mar;25(3):133-136. doi: 10.1016/j.jccase.2021.07.015. Epub 2021 Aug 20.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA.
² Department of Cardiovascular Disease, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA.
³ Department of Cardiovascular Disease, Section of Electrophysiology, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA.
⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Disease, Section of Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA.
⁵ Department of Electrophysiology, Baptist Health South Florida Hospital, Kendall, FL, USA.
⁶ Department of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA.

Abstract

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy and cardiac sarcoidosis can both present with ventricular tachycardia. We report a case of a patient whose histological diagnosis was not only confirmed by the transplanted heart but who also underwent successful transplantation after overcoming COVID-19. <Learning objective: Similarities in the clinical presentation of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) Management differences between CS and ARVC Successful heart transplantation after COVID-19.>.

Publication types

Case Reports