Atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia unmasking cardiac sarcoidosis: a clinical case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sarcoidosis is a rare disease, and cardiac involvement is seen in the minority of patients. The clinical symptoms depend on the location of the noncaseating granulomas in the heart and vary from asymptomatic to atrioventricular (AV) conduction block, ventricular arrhythmia, heart failure, and sudden cardiac death. Clinically manifest cardiac sarcoidosis seldomly presents with supraventricular tachycardia.

Case summary

We present a case where a female patient presented with AV nodal re-entrant tachycardia as an uncommon initial presentation of cardiac sarcoidosis. Her resting electrocardiogram showed a complete left bundle branch block and first-degree AV conduction block. During hospitalization, there was continuous switching between sinus rhythm with first-degree

SUBMITTER: Casteur L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11498048 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature