title: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approach to Arrhythmias in Cardiac Sarcoidosis.
abstract: Cardiac sarcoidosis is a protean disease, capable of causing nearly any cardiac abnormality. Electrical abnormalities including heart block and ventricular tachyarrhythmias are some of the most feared manifestations of cardiac sarcoidosis. Despite increasing awareness, cardiac sarcoidosis remains underdiagnosed in clinical practice, and as a result, many patients do not receive potentially disease-altering immunosuppressant therapy. In this review, we discuss cardiac sarcoidosis and its management, focusing diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to arrhythmias in cardiac sarcoidosis.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1800 Orleans Street, 7125 Zayed, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA. bhousto2@jhmi.edu.
authors.forename: Brian A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Houston
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 301 Mason Lord Drive, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA. cpark26@jhmi.edu.
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1800 Orleans Street, 7125 Zayed, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA. mmukher2@jhmi.edu.|Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, 301 Mason Lord Drive, Suite 2400, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA. mmukher2@jhmi.edu.
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
keywords: Ablation; Cardiac sarcoidosis; ICD; Immunosuppression; Steroids; Ventricular tachycardia