AUTHOR=Wa Yongling , Niu Xiaowei , Xu Jizhe , Jiang Gaxue , Hu Sixiong , Bai Ming 

TITLE=Case report: A case of isolated cardiac sarcoidosis diagnosed by multimodal imaging and endomyocardial biopsy

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

VOLUME=Volume 9 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cardiovascular-medicine/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2022.993024

DOI=10.3389/fcvm.2022.993024

ISSN=2297-055X

ABSTRACT=Due to the low incidence of isolated cardiac sarcoidosis (ICS), it is often missed or misdiagnosed. We describes a case of isolated cardiac sarcoidosis in a 52-year-old male patient to show that advanced imaging, including cardiac magnetic resonance and fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, can not only screen high-risk patients to assist diagnosis but also guide endomyocardial biopsy to improve the detection rate from cardiac lesions. This case highlights the importance of multimodal imaging for screening and the necessity of endomyocardial biopsy(EMB) for diagnosis.