ALLMedicine™ Sarcoidosis Center

Jul 23rd, 2021 - Extrapulmonary sarcoidosis occurs in 30-50% of cases of sarcoidosis, most often in association with pulmonary involvement, and virtually any organ can be involved. Its incidence depends according to the organs considered, clinical phenotype, and h...

Jul 23rd, 2021 - Hypercalcemia and acute renal failure indicating peritoneal sarcoidosis.|2021|Bachmeyer C,Belaube N,Loi V,Gauthé M,Haymann JP,|

Jul 22nd, 2021 - Muscle involvement in sarcoidosis.|2021|Arjun P,Gopinath R,Mahendran B,Balan G,|

Jul 20th, 2021 - Hypertrophic pachymeningitis is a rare inflammatory process characterized by thickening of the dura mater that can be idiopathic or secondary to a variety of conditions such as ANCA-related vasculitis, IgG4-related disease, Sjögren syndrome, rheum...

Jul 18th, 2021 - This study investigated whether pulmonary artery (PA) 18F-FDG uptake is associated with hypertension, and if it correlates to elevated pulmonary pressures. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) combined with computed tomo...

Apr 15th, 2020 - Background: The diagnosis of sarcoidosis is not standardized but is based on three major criteria: a compatible clinical presentation, finding nonnecrotizing granulomatous inflammation in one or more tissue samples, and the exclusion of alternativ...

May 12th, 2019 - Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is an arrhythmogenic disorder of the myocardium not secondary to ischemic, hypertensive, or valvular heart disease. ACM incorporates a broad spectrum of genetic, systemic, infectious, and inflammatory disorders....

Jun 8th, 2015 - Inflammatory diseases of the aorta include routine atherosclerosis, aortitis, periaortitis, and atherosclerosis with excessive inflammatory responses, such as inflammatory atherosclerotic aneurysms. The nomenclature and histologic features of thes...

May 3rd, 2020 - This study is designed to evaluate genetic mechanisms of lung disease by surveying polymorphic genes involved in respiratory function and examining gene expression in the lung cells of individuals with pulmonary disease (e.g., alpha 1-antitrypsin ...

Apr 30th, 2020 - 07-Apr-2020: This trial is continuing for enrolled participants. Recruiting for new participants has stopped at all sites because of COVID-19. Overall Recruitment Status is "Active, Not Recruiting". The Actual Number of Participants is still "Anti...

Apr 23rd, 2020 - A phase 2b, open label study to assess the hemodynamic effects of increasing doses of pulsed, inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) in subjects with pulmonary hypertension associated with pulmonary fibrosis or sarcoidosis on long term oxygen therapy followed...

Apr 8th, 2020 - The purpose of this research study to find out if a drug called OctreoScan or DOTATATE can help doctors diagnose people with cardiac sarcoidosis better. OctreoScan and DOTATATE are both approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to di...

Mar 23rd, 2020 - Design: The investigators design a prospective randomised multicenter study to assess the diagnostic value of cryobiopsy in patients with suspected Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia by comparing two different interventional methods. Patients with ...

May 4th, 2021 - Researchers are reporting impressive results in a small, open-label trial of the JAK inhibitor tofacitinib in cutaneous sarcoidosis: 6 of 10 patients improved so much that they reached a disease activity level of zero, and all patients improved by...

Apr 27th, 2021 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Matthew F. Watto, MD: We are back. This is The Curbsiders. I'm Dr Matthew Watto, here with my good friend, Dr Paul Williams. We're going to talk about sarcoidosis. We had a wonderful conversation with t...

Apr 15th, 2021 - Black patients diagnosed by dermatologists with cutaneous sarcoidosis were significantly more likely to have unrecognized systemic organ involvement than were non-Black patients, according to a retrospective chart review of patients seen at Massac...

Feb 22nd, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's  Coronavirus Resource Center. What happened to Hasan Gokal, MD, should stick painfully in the craws of all physicians. It should serve as a call to action because Gokal is sit...

Feb 16th, 2021 - Patients with advanced melanoma and preexisting autoimmune diseases (AIDs) who were treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) responded well and did not suffer more grade 3 or higher immune-related adverse events than patients without an AI...