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Importance of endomyocardial biopsy in distinguishing between cardiac sarcoidosis and giant cell myocarditis

Need to distinguish between sarcoidosis and giant cell myocarditis

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  1. 2nd Department of Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, U Nemocnice 2, 12808, Prague, Czech Republic

    Petr Kuchynka, Tomas Palecek M.D., Ph.D., Sudheera Magage & Ales Linhart

  2. Department of Radiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Lukas Lambert & Martin Masek

  3. Institute of Nuclear Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Antonin Fikrle

  4. Institute of Pathology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Ivana Vitkova

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Video 1: transthoracic echocardiography, apical four-chamber view. The recording shows a non-dilated left ventricle with preserved ejection fraction despite dyskinesis of mildly thickened basal part of interventricular septum. RA right atrium, LA left atrium, RV right ventricle, LV left ventricle

Video 2: transthoracic echocardiography, apical four-chamber view. The recording shows a non-dilated left ventricle with mildly reduced global systolic function with ejection fraction of 45% with thinning and dyskinesis of basal segments of the interventricular septum. Additionally, note the lead of implantable cardioverter defibrillator in the right ventricle. RA right atrium, LA left atrium, RV right ventricle, LV left ventricle

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Kuchynka, P., Palecek, T., Lambert, L. et al. Importance of endomyocardial biopsy in distinguishing between cardiac sarcoidosis and giant cell myocarditis. Wien Klin Wochenschr 131, 186–187 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-018-1413-1

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