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Sarcoidosis: is there a role for anti-TNF-α?

Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia, 2007
In severe cases of sarcoidosis treatment can be very difficult. The common treatment strategies might be failing. Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) α therapy is approved in rheumatoid arthritis, M. Crohn, psoriasis and ankylosing spondylitis.
Marjolein Drent
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Sarcoidosis

The Lancet, 2003
There have been several new insights into the cause and treatment of sarcoidosis. Studies of genetic variation have shown that specific genetic polymorphisms are associated with increased risk of disease or affect disease presentation. These polymorphisms include variation of MHC and cytokines such as tumour necrosis factor (TNF). Not all investigators
Robert P, Baughman, Elyse E, Lower, Roland M, du Bois   +2 more
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Granulomatous Sarcoidosis Mimics

Frontiers in Medicine, 2021
Many granulomatous diseases can mimic sarcoidosis histologically and in terms of their clinical features. These mimics include infectious granulomatous diseases, granulomatous reactions to occupational and environmental exposures, granulomatous drug ...
Marc A. Judson
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Pulmonary miliary sarcoidosis masquerading the reactivation of tuberculosis 30 years later

Clinical Case Reports, 2023
Key Clinical Message Sarcoidosis may occur after treatment with pulmonary tuberculosis and requires differential diagnosis from tuberculosis reactivation.
Takashi Okuma, Reimi Mizushima, Yukihisa Takeda, Kazutoshi Toriyama, Yusuke Watanabe, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Kazutetsu Aoshiba   +6 more
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Peripheral blood gene expression as a novel genomic biomarker in complicated sarcoidosis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Sarcoidosis, a systemic granulomatous syndrome invariably affecting the lung, typically spontaneously remits but in ~20% of cases progresses with severe lung dysfunction or cardiac and neurologic involvement (complicated sarcoidosis).
Tong Zhou, Wei Zhang, Nadera J Sweiss, Edward S Chen, David R Moller, Kenneth S Knox, Shwu-Fan Ma, Michael S Wade, Imre Noth, Roberto F Machado, Joe G N Garcia   +10 more
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King's Sarcoidosis Questionnaire (KSQ) - Validation study in Serbian speaking population of sarcoidosis patients.

PLoS ONE, 2023
IntroductionSarcoidosis is a multiorgan, multisystem chronic disease of unknown etiology and unpredictable course. Health status is reduced in sarcoidosis and assessing it is a difficult multitask effort due to many faces this disease might have ...
Mihailo Stjepanovic, Violeta Mihailovic-Vucinic, Branislav S Gvozdenovic, Jelena Milin-Lazovic, Slobodan Belic, Natasa Djurdjevic, Nikola Maric, Aleksa Golubovic   +7 more
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Clinical periodontal diagnosis

Periodontology 2000, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Periodontal diseases include pathological conditions elicited by the presence of bacterial biofilms leading to a host response. In the diagnostic process, clinical signs such as bleeding on probing, development of periodontal pockets and gingival recessions, furcation involvement and presence of radiographic bone loss should be assessed prior ...
Giovanni E. Salvi, Andrea Roccuzzo, Jean‐Claude Imber, Alexandra Stähli, Björn Klinge, Niklaus P. Lang   +5 more
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Characteristics and clinical outcomes of patients with Sarcoidosis admitted for ST-elevation myocardial infarction in the United States: A propensity matched analysis from the National Inpatient Sample

Archives of Medical Science: Atherosclerotic Diseases
Introduction Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disorder characterised by non-caseating granulomas. Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) normally causes conduction abnormalities, ventricular arrhythmias, and heart failure.
Raheel Ahmed, Noem Najam, Kamleshun Ramphul, Sebastian Mactaggart, Mansimran Singh Dulay, Joseph Okafor, Alessia Azzu, Maham Bilal, Rahat A Memon, Hemamalini Sakthivel, Rajdeep Khattar, Athol Umfrey Wells, John Arun Baksi, Kshama Wechalekar, Vasilis Kouranos, Anwar Chahal, Rakesh Sharma   +16 more
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A Rare Case of Systemic Sarcoidosis in a Middle-Aged Female with a Solitary Thyroid Nodule

Case Reports in Endocrinology, 2021
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflammatory disease characterized by the presence of noncaseating granulomas. Sarcoidosis can affect any organ of the body, the lung being the most affected. Sarcoidosis rarely affects the thyroid gland, and only a few cases
Ayrton Bangolo, John Bukasa Kakamba, Ali Atoot, Mohammad Jurri, Ashraf Mahmoud, Arthur Oliver Lo, Kunchang Song, Syed Sirajuddin, Adam Atoot   +8 more
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Cutaneous Sarcoidosis- A Report of Two Intriguing Cases [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2020
Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease which leads to formation of noncaseating granuloma in the affected organs like lungs, lymph nodes and less commonly the skin.
R Mathumathy, S Murugan, S Adikrishnan, R Sivayogana   +3 more
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