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Redistribution on the Thallium Scan in Myocardial Sarcoidosis: Concise Communication

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University Medical School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Correspondence: For reprints contact: P. Todd Makler, MD, Hospital of the Univ. of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce St., Philadelphia, PA 19104.

ABSTRACT

Resting and redistribution thallium studies were performed in four young patients with sarcoidosis to evaluate the possibility of myocardial involvement. In each case the resting scan showed marked defects that resolved on the redistribution studies. In a different patient population, these results would have implied significant coronary artery disease.

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