Cardiac Sarcoidosis and Autoimmune Heart Disease — Course Text

Taught backwards

This track runs its cases in reverse. Learners are shown the catastrophe first — the complete heart block in a forty-year-old, the ventricular arrhythmia with no obvious substrate — and then walked back through the previous eighteen months of that patient’s records to find what was already there.

Something always was. That is the lesson, and these 392 pages are the set text for it.

The findings that should have prompted suspicion

Conduction disease under fifty with no explanation. Ventricular arrhythmia without substrate. Wall motion abnormality in a non-coronary distribution. Unexplained cardiomyopathy alongside pulmonary findings nobody linked. Each unremarkable in isolation, each specific enough to act on once you are looking.

The imaging modules

Cardiac MRI and FDG-PET and their respective roles. Considerable time goes to the PET preparation protocol, because a poorly prepared study is uninterpretable and a large share of scans are wasted that way — a purely technical point that learners rate as unexpectedly valuable. Endomyocardial biopsy and its sampling problem. The competing diagnostic criteria and why they disagree.

Beyond sarcoid

Across 31 modules: lupus, rheumatoid disease, systemic sclerosis, vasculitis, IgG4-related disease, eosinophilic myocarditis, and inflammatory overlap with amyloid. Immunosuppression and device candidacy close the track.

Enrolment

Cardiologists, rheumatologists, imaging learners and advanced-track trainees.

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