Impact of Corticosteroid Use on the Clinical Response and
Prognosis in Patients with Cardiac Sarcoidosis who Underwent an Upgrade
to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Yuya Suzuki1, MD, Mitsuru Takami1,
MD, PhD, Koji Fukuzawa2, MD, PhD, Kunihiko
Kiuchi2, MD, PhD, Akira Shimane3,
MD, Jun Sakai1, MD, Toshihiro
Nakamura1, MD, Atsusuke Yatomi1, MD,
Yusuke Sonoda1, MD, Hiroyuki
Takahara1, MD, Kazutaka
Nakasone1, MD,
Kyoko Yamamoto1, MD, Kenichi Tani1,
MD, Hidehiro Iwai1, MD, Yusuke
Nakanishi1, MD, Ken-ichi Hirata1,2,
MD, PhD
1 Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of
Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2
Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan.
2 Section of Arrhythmia, Division of Cardiovascular
Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate
School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017,
Japan.
3 Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hyogo Brain and
Heart Center, 520 Saisho Kou, Himeji, Hyogo 670-0981, Japan.
Funding: This study was not supported by any sources of funding.
Conflict of Interest: The Section of Arrhythmia is supported by an
endowment from Abbott JAPAN and Medtronic JAPAN and has received a
scholarship fund from Biotronik JAPAN. Ken-ichi Hirata chairs the
Section, and Koji Fukuzawa and Kunihiko Kiuchi belong to the Section.
However, all authors report no conflict of interest for this
manuscript’s contents.
Address correspondence to: Mitsuru Takami, MD, PhD,
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho,
Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan.
Telephone number: 81-78-382-5846 Fax number: 81-78-382-5859 Email
address: mitsuru_takamin@yahoo.co.jp