Diagnosing pulmonary sarcoidosis raises challenges due to both the absence of a specific
diagnostic criterion and the varied presentations capable of mimicking many other conditions. …

Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease affecting the lung in almost all cases. 1–3 Whatever the
various revealing symptoms, the evidence of abnormal chest radiography is usually a key step …

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 …

Introduction Pulmonary fibrosing sarcoidosis is associated with increased mortality. This study
was aimed to explore the prognosis value of a panel of parameters for predicting mortality. …

Distal lung diseases, such as pulmonary fibrosis or acute lung injury, are commonly associated
with local alveolar hypoxia that may be deleterious through the stimulation of alveolar …

Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) complicating sarcoidosis (SA) is associated with
high mortality, and there is a lack of clarity regarding the relative contributions of SA or CPA. …

Objective To study how demographic differences impact disease manifestation of sarcoidosis
using the WASOG tool in a large multicentric study. Methods Clinical data regarding 1445 …

One view of sarcoidosis is that the term covers many different diseases. However, no
classification framework exists for the future exploration of pathogenetic pathways, genetic or …

Background Macrophages are pivotal cells in sarcoidosis. Monocytes-derived (MD)
macrophages have recently been demonstrated to play a major role especially in pulmonary …

We read with great interest the article by Newton et al. [1]. They found that mutations in the
telomere maintenance machinery genes (telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), …