TY - JOUR AU - Yildiz, Cenk Eray AU - Ergenoglu, Mehmet Umit AU - Yerebakan, Halit AU - Dogan Ekici, A. Isin AU - Selcuk, Nalan AU - Kucukaksu, Deniz Suha PY - 2008/10/22 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Sarcoidosis and Coronary Bypass Surgery: A Case Report JF - The Heart Surgery Forum JA - HSF VL - 11 IS - 5 SE - DO - 10.1532/HSF98.20081049 UR - https://journal.hsforum.com/index.php/HSF/article/view/474 SP - E325-E326 AB - Sarcoidosis, a chronic granulomatous disease with unknown etiology and pathogenesis, affects the skin and many other organs and has a course characterized by remissions and relapses. We describe a patient with sarcoidosis, which we diagnosed retrospectively after we had difficulties in harvesting the left internal thoracic artery because of giant and disseminated mediastinal lymphadenopathies on the anterior thoracic wall during urgent coronary artery bypass surgery. ER -