Multimodal Imaging Features of Systemic Sarcoidosis: FDG PET/CT and Cardiac PET/MRI Findings.
Sung Hoon Kim
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Case in brief
A 31-year-old man with severe heart failure was found to have systemic sarcoidosis. Whole-body FDG PET/CT depicted the extent of systemic disease, while cardiac FDG PET/MRI correlated myocardial metabolic activity with structural injury. The report presents multimodality imaging as a means of assessing both disease distribution and cardiac involvement in this patient.
What made this case unusual
The case paired whole-body FDG PET/CT with simultaneous cardiac FDG PET/MRI, linking myocardial metabolic activity to structural injury while assessing systemic disease burden.
Diagnostic / clinical pearl
In suspected systemic sarcoidosis with cardiac presentation, multimodality imaging can assess disease extent and relate myocardial metabolic activity to structural injury.