TY  - JOUR
T1  - SUdden death due to myocardial sarcoidosis, with a comment on the etiology of sarcoid
AU  - POON T, FORBUS WD
Y1  - 1959/11/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270110091011
JO  - A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 771
EP  - 778
VL  - 104
IS  - 5
N2  - Only 33 cases of sarcoid of the heart have been reported in world literature up to 1958. Of these, sudden death occurred in 15 cases. The commonest age group (at death) in the series was 40 years or older.1 The male was more frequently affected than the female. Sarcoidosis of the heart has not been observed as a cause of death in children. This disease is most widely distributed in Scandinavia and in the southeastern United States.2,3 Most of the cases were found in American Negroes. The following two new cases were in the white race; one of the patients was a woman. Both patients died suddenly.Report of Cases 
    Case 1.—Clinical Summary. 
    —The patient was a 24-year-old white man, who was a senior medical student. He was apparently well until the approximate age of 12 years. After a summer camp vacation, he noticed a few nodules on the medial
SN  - 0888-2479
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270110091011
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1959.00270110091011
ER  -