Levels of certain proteins carried by extracellular vesicles (EVs), tiny cargo-filled sacs released by cells, may help predict whether people with pulmonary sarcoidosis respond to standard treatment with prednisone or methotrexate, a study suggests. Higher levels of three EV-carried proteins involved in immune responses were associated with a better…
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Outcomes among more than 1,800 people newly diagnosed with cardiac sarcoidosis differed by diagnostic features, including heart tissue sampling to confirm the disease and whether it also affected other organs, a large real-world study using registry data found. The group of patients diagnosed without a heart biopsy and with…
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Last month, I had two intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) infusions and three other medical appointments. This month, I have “only” one infusion and two appointments because I’ll be away for a few weeks. When I come back — another short month — I’ll have two infusions and five appointments. And so…
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