1172The increased serum level of troponin T after immunosuppression therapy reflects sustained myocardial FDG accumulation in cardiac sarcoidosis

Background and purpose Fluorine-18-flurodeoxyglucose positron emission computed tomography (18FDG-PET CT) is the sole but time-consuming and expensive examination assessing active inflammatory myocardium noninvasively in patients with cardiac sarcoidosis (CS). Though immunosuppression is used to treat CS, little is known about the cardiac biomarkers for determining therapeutic effect to immunosuppression therapy other than 18FDG-PET. Methods...