- 著者
- Xiaofan Guo Eric Vittinghoff Vasanth Vedantham Mark J. Pletcher Byron K. Lee
- 出版者
- 日本循環器学会
- 雑誌
- Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.CJ-17-0701, (Released:2017-09-13)
- 参考文献数
- 8
- 被引用文献数
- 5
Background:Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) is a life-threatening disease that is frequently under-diagnosed.Methods and Results:We used a nationwide inpatient sample to identify CS patients from 2005 to 2011 in the USA. The annual admissions of CS increased from 1,108 in 2005 to 2,182 in 2011, representing a 2-fold rise over a short time. The proportions of CS patients with severe comorbidities, ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation and heart failure all increased from 2005 to 2011. However, the in-hospital mortality rate declined.Conclusions:An increasing trend of CS was observed. Cardiologists should notice that CS is not as rare as thought.