What steroid sparing agent do you use for treatment of cardiac sarcoidosis?
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Rheumatology · Mobile Medical Care Inc
Recognizing that corticosteroids will be needed to acutely stabilize cardiac sarcoidosis, a steroid sparing agent is usually a reasonable choice early. My choice of secondary agents depends on the other manifestations of sarcoidosis present at the time of diagnosis. I have rarely seen cardiac sarcoi...
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Rheumatology · Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine
Cardiac involvement is an increasingly recognized feature of the sarcoidosis, largely due to increased awareness of this complication as well as improved diagnostic modalities, notably cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT). Actual prevalence...