Sarcoid heart disease--results of follow-up investigations.
52 patients thought to have sarcoid heart involvement have been followed up. By administration of a standardized glucocorticoid therapy we demonstrated improvement of patients' symptoms, ECG disturbances, thallium scan defects of left heart muscle and there was 60-70% regression of pulmonary sarcoidosis. There was a low death rate. We conclude that our diagnostic measures are reliable, and that glucocorticoid therapy is efficacious in the early stages of the disease.
Schaedel
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Zentralklinik für Herz- und Lungenkrankheiten, Bad Berka, Germany.
Kirsten
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Schmidt
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Schmidt
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Strauss
H J
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D000328:Adult; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011239:Prednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013997:Time Factors
D011239:Prednisolone