This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on Web of Science (12)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

BJORN THORBJARNARSON, M.D.; FRANK GLENN, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1956;73(5):862-869.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

The manifold signs and symptoms associated with sarcoidosis have in recent years received considerable attention. Originally described as a disease of the skin and lymph nodes, it is now recognized as a systemic disease of unknown etiology which may be localized or widespread in any organ or part of the body.

Sarcoidosis itself as a cause of death is not frequent. It is only when sarcoid involves the heart (primarily, or secondarily following pulmonary fibrosis), the brain, or, possibly, the kidneys, that the uncomplicated disease proves fatal. Death generally is due to some complication.

Perhaps the commonest complication is. heart failure secondary to extensive involvement of the lungs producing chronic fibrosis or emphysema.¹

Since Bernstein,² in 1929, first described sarcoid lesions in the heart, attention has been focused on this disease as an infrequent cause of sudden death, by involvement of that organ. In 92 autopsies as reported . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

From the Department of Surgery, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Feb. 21, 1956.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?