Necessity for rule out coronary artery disease with the positive findings of 18F-FDG-PET in case of systemic sarcoidosis

Int J Cardiol. 2014 Apr 1;172(3):e401-2. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.12.259. Epub 2014 Jan 10.

Authors

Toru Egashira¹, Shinji Makino², Akira Kunitomi², Marina Okada², Yuichiro Maekawa², Keiichi Fukuda²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan.

PMID: 24461987
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.12.259

No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiac sarcoidosis; Coronary artery disease; FDG-PET.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Coronary Artery Disease / diagnostic imaging*
Coronary Artery Disease / etiology
Diagnosis, Differential
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
Humans
Male
Positron-Emission Tomography / methods
Radiopharmaceuticals
Reproducibility of Results
Sarcoidosis / complications*
Sarcoidosis / diagnosis

Substances

Radiopharmaceuticals
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18