Cardiac sarcoidosis: A rare cause of malignant ventricular arrhythmias
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Cardiac sarcoidosis, ventricular tachycardia, Cardiac MRI.Abstract
The most frequent cause of ventricular tachycardia in our environment is, by far, chronic ischemic heart disease. However, there is also a less infrequent and more heterogeneous group of other causes that must be taken into account in the differential diagnosis. One of the most typical is sarcoidosis. We present a clinical case of cardiac sarcoidosis that is a good example of the typical pattern of the disease on imaging tests.
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