P1808Routine screening practices for cardiac involvement in patients with sarcoidosis

Introduction Sarcoidosis is a multi-systemic granulomatous disease of unknown etiology. Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) has proven to be a clinically significant cause of unexplained ventricular dysfunction, atrioventricular block (AVB) and ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VT). Studies have suggested that clinically manifest cardiac involvement occurs in only 5% of patients with sarcoidosis. However, recent imaging studies have shown that cardiac...