Catalog

Sarcoid myocarditis

No MMS code

Link to WHO Definition

Sarcoid myocarditis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1037124796

Sarcoidosis is a multi-organ immune system disorder of unknown aetiology characterised by discrete non-necrotising (noncaseating) epithelioid cell granulomas. Cardiac sarcoidosis with accompanying granulomatous myocarditis and fibrosis, may be subclinical or be associated with arrhythmias, particularly atrioventricular block and ventricular tachycardia, and-or cardiomyopathy with left ventricular systolic heart failure or with preserved ejection fraction and diastolic dysfunction.