What is your approach to a patient who has a cardiac PET scan suggestive of sarcoid but no other supporting evidence of a diagnosis of sarcoid?
Do you typically push for myocardial biopsy in this case?
Answer from: at Community Practice
The diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) can be challenging, as non-necrotizing granulomatous inflammation is frequently patchy, and as a result, may not be present on endomyocardial biopsy even in the setting of active cardiac disease. Many institutions, including ours, attempt to avoid endomyocar...
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