Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918
A Rare Case of Cardiac Sarcoidosis in a Patient with Progressive Systemic Sclerosis, Sjögren's Syndrome, and Polymyositis
Noriko HOSOYAToshihide MIMURAYoshifumi ENOKAWATakehiko MIZUNOKen HAMASAKITomohiro MATSUYAMANobuyuki MATSUHASHIHideki YOTSUMOTOYoshio YAZAKI
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1995 Volume 34 Issue 12 Pages 1164-1167

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A 56-year-old woman with overlap syndrome of progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS), Sjögren's syndrome, and polymyositis is reported. She developed complete atrioventricular (AV) block and progressive bilateral hilar adenopathy, and was diagnosed as having sarcoidosis by histological examination of the hilar lymph nodes biopsied thoracoscopically. Although coexistence of one or two autoimmune diseases with sarcoidosis is not uncommon, coexistence of three or more autoimmune diseases with sarcoidosis is rare. To our knowledge, the described case is the first case in which the three above-mentioned autoimmune diseases were accompanied by myocardial sarcoidosis.
(Internal Medicine 34: 1164-1167, 1995)

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