Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) is a form of inflammatory cardiomyopathy associated with significant clinical complications such as high-degree atrioventricular block, ventricular tachycardia, and heart failure as well as sudden cardiac death. It is therefore important to provide an expert consensus statement summarizing the role of different available diagnostic tools and emphasizing the importance of a multidisciplinary approach. By integrating clinical information and the results of diagnostic tests, an accurate, validated, and timely diagnosis can be made, while alternative diagnoses can be reasonably excluded. This clinical expert consensus statement reviews the evidence on the management of different CS manifestations and provides advice to practicing clinicians in the field on the role of immunosuppression and the treatment of cardiac complications based on limited published data and the experience of international CS experts. The monitoring and risk stratification of patients with CS is also covered, while controversies and future research needs are explored.

2nd Department of Medicine Department of Cardiovascular Medicine 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital Prague Czech Republic

Barts Heart Centre St Bartholomew's Hospital Barts Health NHS Trust West Smithfield EC1A 7BE London UK

Berlin Institute of Health at Charité Center for Regenerative Therapies Universitätsmedizin Berlin Berlin Germany

Cardiac MRI Unit Royal Brompton Hospital part of Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust London UK

Cardiology Unit ASST Spedali Civili University of Brescia Brescia Italy

Department for Cardiology Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin; Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin Berlin Institute of Health at Charité Berlin Germany

Department of Cardiology CHRU Nancy Université de Lorraine Nancy France

Department of Cardiology Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité partner site Berlin Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin Berlin Germany

Department of Cardiology IADI INSERM U1254 Université de Lorraine Nancy France

Department of Cardiology King's College Hospital London UK

Department of Cardiology National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Attikon University Hospital Athens Greece

Department of Cardiology Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust Oxford UK

Department of Cardiology Royal Brompton Hospital part of Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust London SW3 6NP UK

Department of Cardiology University Hospital Santa Maria della Misericordia Udine Italy

Department of Cardiology University of Belgrade Pasterova 2 Floor 9 11000 Belgrade Serbia

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine Mayo Clinic in Florida 4500 San Pablo Jacksonville USA

Department of Medicine University of Udine Udine Italy

Interstitial Lung Disease Unit Royal Brompton Hospital part of Guys and St Thomas's Hospital London UK

King's College London UK

La Paz University Hospital IdiPaz Universidad Autonoma Madrid Spain

National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial College London UK

NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre William Harvey Research Institute Queen Mary University London Charterhouse Square London EC1M 6BQ UK

Royal Brompton Hospital part of Guys and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust Professor of Cardiology at Imperial College and Kings College London UK

University College London London UK

University Hospital Tubingen Tübingen Germany

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