Exploring Occupational, Recreational, and Environmental Associations in Patients With Clinically Manifest Cardiac Sarcoidosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sarcoidosis is a condition of unknown etiology. A number of occupational, recreational, and environmental exposures have been associated with the development of extra-cardiac sarcoidosis. Patients with clinically manifest cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) have a distinct clinical phenotype. We sought to explore the exposures associated with clinically manifest CS.

Methods

Two groups of patients were recruited in a prospective registry: cases (patients with clinically manifest CS) and controls (patients without sarcoidosis and who had similar cardiac presentations to cases). A validated survey, previously used in other sarcoidosis phenotypes, was sent to all patients.

Results

A total of 113 patients met the inclusion criteria and were sent the survey, of whom 79 of 1

SUBMITTER: Spence SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7711021 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature