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Case Report: Is It Cardiac Sarcoidosis or COVID-19 Myocarditis?

Simranjit Kaur, MBBS, Sirajum Munira, MD, Farooq H. Sheikh, MD, FACC, & Anjani Pillarisetty, MD, RhMSUS  |  Issue: March 2023  |  March 12, 2023

 


Simranjit Kaur, MBBS, is a third-year internal medicine resident at MedStar Georgetown—Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C., and will be pursuing rheumatology fellowship at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. after her residency.

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Sirajum Munira, MD, is an attending rheumatologist affiliated with the Annapolis Rheumatology group, Maryland.

Farooq H. Sheikh, MD, FACC, is an attending physician at MedStar Heart Institute at Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C., where he also serves as the medical director of the Advanced Heart Failure Program and regional director of the MedStar Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy Program. He specializes in heart failure and cardiac transplantation.

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Anjani Pillarisetty, MD, RhMSUS, is an attending physician and certified musculoskeletal ultrasound rheumatologist at MedStar Georgetown—Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C., where she also serves as the associate program director in the Division of Rheumatology.

References

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  2. Agdamag ACC, Edmiston JB, Charpentier V, et al. Update on COVID-19 myocarditis. Medicina (Kaunas). 2020 Dec 9;56(12):678.
  3. Manansala M, Ascoli C, Alburquerque AG, et al. Case series: COVID-19 in African American patients with sarcoidosis. Front Med (Lausanne). 2020 Nov 4;7588527.
  4. Huang L, Zhao P, Tang D, et al. Cardiac involvement in patients recovered from COVID-2019 identified using magnetic resonance imaging. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2020 Nov;13(11):2330–2339.
  5. Sanghvi SK, Schwarzman LS, Nazir NT. Cardiac MRI and myocardial injury in COVID-19: Diagnosis, risk stratification and prognosis. Diagnostics (Basel). 2021 Jan 15:11(1):130.
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