Treatment and clinical course in 14 patients with necrotising sarcoid granulomatosis
Patient No. | Treatment | Indication | Respiratory course | Extrarespiratory course | Follow-up months |
1 | Steroid | Systemic symptoms | Resolution relapse | Resolution | 60 |
2 | Steroid | Arthralgia | Resolution relapse# | Persistent arthralgia | 102 |
3 | None | Resolution | Resolution | 32 | |
4 | Surgery | Diagnostic procedure | Resolution | Resolution | 21 |
5 | Steroid | Systemic symptoms | Resolution relapse | Resolution | 101 |
6 | S, C#, A, EI | Cerebral involvement | Resolution | Death (neurological) | 114 |
7 | Steroid | Systemic symptoms | Resolution | Resolution | 28 |
8 | Surgery | Diagnostic procedure | Relapse of nodule | None | 42 |
9 | None | Resolution | Resolution | 18 | |
10 | Surgery | Diagnostic procedure | Relapse of nodules | Pericarditis C-myopathy | 36 |
11 | Surgery | Diagnostic procedure | Resolution | None | 24 |
12 | None | Sequelar cavities¶ | Resolution | 56 | |
13 | None | Resolution | Resolution | 52 | |
14 | None | Resolution | Persistence of skin lesions | 79 |
S: steroid; C: cyclophosphamide; A: azathioprine; EI: encephalic irradiation. #: neoplasy occurrence; ¶: aspergilloma and lung cancer.