| Genetic factors are likely to influence the clinical course and pattern of sarcoidosis, a granulomatous disease of unknown origin. |
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| Diseases that involve the axial compartment alone include lymphangitic carcinomatosis, sarcoidosis, and lymphoma. |
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| When I see patients with chronic syndromes where they have splenomegaly and disease progression over time, I always consider sarcoidosis. |
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| The examination of 620 patients with affection of the salivary and lacrymal glands revealed sarcoidosis in 19 of them. |
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| Papules of sarcoidosis may be of various colors, including red, reddish-brown, violaceous, translucent, or hyperpigmented. |
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| Most etiologic studies of sarcoidosis have used an epidemiologic approach, but the disease poses particular difficulties. |
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| Granuloma formation in sarcoidosis may be a stereotypical response to multiple infectious and noninfectious agents. |
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| Amyloidosis and other infiltrative diseases, including sarcoidosis and haemochromatosis, can cause a restrictive syndrome. |
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| Endoscopic procedures may be helpful in the diagnosis of disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease and sarcoidosis. |
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| The results of this case emphasized the vital importance of an occupational history anamnesis of patients suspected of having sarcoidosis. |
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| It is often idiopathic in origin, but may be associated with multiple sclerosis, sarcoidosis, syphilis, Lyme disease, and ocular lymphoma. |
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| The etiology of the systemic granulomatous disease sarcoidosis remains obscure. |
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| Young et al recently described a patient with sarcoidosis who had a parathyroid hormone concentration above normal. |
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| Bilateral slow-growing enlargement of the parotids is a classic, but not common, finding in sarcoidosis. |
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| This is seen in longstanding sarcoidosis, in which asymptomatic, violaceous nodules are seen on nose, fingers, and ears. |
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| Specific manifestations include papules, plaques, lupus pernio, scar sarcoidosis, and rare morphologies such as alopecia, ulcers, hypopigmented patches, and ichthyosis. |
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| The remaining 5 percent of patients have chronic cough caused by bronchiogenic carcinoma, carcinomatosis, sarcoidosis, left ventricular failure or aspiration. |
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| Its expression in lung tissue has been widely described in systemic sclerosis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and pulmonary sarcoidosis, and bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis. |
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| We report herewith on the clinical and radiological findings in an 84-year old male patient presenting with multi-organ sarcoidosis. |
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| A consistent observation in patients with sarcoidosis evolving to fibrosis is the progressive loss of epithelial cells, which undergo programmed cell death. |
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| Tuberculosis, neoplasm of lung, sarcoidosis, pneumoconiosis and pulmonary fibrosis require separate adjudication. |
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| Possible causes include syphilis, tuberculosis, Lyme disease, and sarcoidosis. |
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| When manifested in the heart, sarcoidosis in an active state can result in arrhythmia, including a sudden loss of consciousness. |
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| In 1983, the pilot was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, which was consistent with the presence of these granulomas. |
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| Differential diagnosis must rule out sarcoidosis and granulomatous infections. |
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| Sonny Starr, LLC has formed in affiliation with the Sarcoidosis Network Foundation to combat the disease, sarcoidosis. |
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| Typical imaging features of liver and spleen sarcoidosis include visceromegaly, with multiple nodules hypodense on CT images and hypointense on T2-weighted MRI acquisitions. |
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| Treatment is usually of the underlying cause and may include complete bedrest, oral salicylates, and in treatment of sarcoidosis systemic corticosteroids. |
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| Although provincial compensation data indicate that chronic beryllium disease has not been commonly reported, this condition may have been under-recognized and sometimes misdiagnosed as sarcoidosis. |
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| Splenic sarcoidosis may cause hypersplenism resulting in anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, or any combination including pancytopenia. |
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| The principal indication is a diagnosis of invasion of the ganglions, a tumour, or certain benign conditions of the mediastinum, such as sarcoidosis or tuberculosis. |
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| Involvement of the larynx is rare but significant. We present here a case of biopsy-proven of laryngeal sarcoidosis with favourable evolution without specific treatment. |
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| Contemporary views were that he had tuberculosis, but more recent views are that it was bronchiectasis or even sarcoidosis. |
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| A biopsy later revealed benign sarcoidosis which had caused patches of red and swollen tissue, called granulomas, to develop on his lungs. |
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| I would like to point out a few things about renal involvement associated with sarcoidosis. |
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| Dysphagia resulting from esophageal hypomotility is prominent in several autoimmune disorders, such as systemic sclerosis, RA, and sarcoidosis. |
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| Histoplasmosis, lymphoma, TB, sarcoidosis and neoplasia are the common causes of mediastinal lymphadenopathy. |
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| Remitting distal lower extremity swelling with pitting oedema in acute sarcoidosis. |
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| But you can get it in a variety of other diseases such as sarcoidosis and pemphigus, both auto-immune diseases where the body attacks itself. |
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| Kikuchi's syndrome needs to be differentiated from other diseases like malignant lymphoma, SLE, tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, and cat scratch disease. |
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| Trapped lung should be considered as a cause of pleural effusion in patients with sarcoidosis in effusions unresponsive to thoracentesis and corticosteroids. |
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| Opsahl and O'Brien reported a case of a primigravida with severe pulmonary sarcoidosis on corticosteroid treatment who suffered systemic nocardiosis during her pregnancy. |
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| Recently, use of EBUS has expanded for patients with sarcoidosis, tuberculosis, and lymphoma and in the workup of nonspecific mediastinal adenopathy. |
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| Failure to respond to antituberculosis therapy or the presence of other clues should alert the practitioner to the possibility of an alternative diagnosis such as sarcoidosis. |
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| Genitourinary involvement with sarcoidosis is extremely rare. |
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| For example, sarcoidosis is more prevalent in black ethnic groups and a high prevalence of Behcet's disease has been reported in the Middle East and Asia, especially in Japan. |
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| Mechanisms of hypergammaglobulinemia in pulmonary sarcoidosis. |
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| Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease with a diverse clinical presentation. |
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| I expect my GP will be thrilled to hear I'm not just malingering and I've actually got Giant Cell Arteritis or Sarcoidosis. |
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| Sarcoidosis is a chronic multisystem granulomatous disorder of unknown etiology characterized by the formation of granulomas composed of epithelioid histocytes. |
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