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Sarcoid Heart Disease: A Rare Cause of Chest Pain and Malignant Cardiac Arrhythmia in a Young Asian Man

A Case Report

Department of Cardiology, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham

Jayant Gupta

Department of Cardiology, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham

Jaswinder S. Gill

Department of Cardiological Sciences, St. George's Hospital, London, England

Shyam P. Singh

Department of Cardiology, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham

Cardiac sarcoidosis is a disease of young adults. In most cases, it presents with sudden death, arrhythmia, conduction disorders, heart failure, or cardiomyopathy. The authors describe a young Indo-Asian man with cardiac sarcoidosis who presented acutely with chest pain and malignant cardiac arrhythmias. The diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis should be considered in all young patients with unexplained arrhythmias or heart failure or in cases of sudden death.

Angiology, Vol. 47, No. 9, 905-910 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/000331979604700910


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