The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has given a $1.98 million grant to Wayne State University researchers to refine an antibody-based technology that can help to distinguish people with sarcoidosis from tuberculosis patients and healthy individuals. Sarcoidosis is an…
The American Thoracic Society (ATS) Foundation Research Program and the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR) have awarded a Foundation Partner Grant to Nicholas Arger, MD, at the University of California San Francisco, to study the role of a specific population of immune cells in sarcoidosis-related…
The transplantation program at Stanford Medicine has hit a milestone with its 1,000th procedure — performed on a 54-year-old woman with sarcoidosis. The surgery, carried under the Heart-Lung & Lung Transplantation Program at Stanford Health Care, is now part of the 750 lung transplants and 250 heart-lung…
While sarcoidosis affecting the testicles is rare, it can be a cause of infertility in men, according to a new case report. The report, “Sarcoidosis is a rare cause of infertility: A case report,” was published in Urology Case Reports. Sarcoidosis is characterized by the…
Two cardiologists in the Netherlands are using an artificial intelligence (AI) tool called the VMS Heart Analysis System, developed by Ventripoint Diagnostics, for the early diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension in sarcoidosis patients. With this tool, Marco Post, MD, PhD, and Marloes Huitema, MD, at the St. Antonius…
Adalimumab — marketed by (Abbvie) as Humira — can help treat patients with verrucous sarcoidosis — a rare type of cutaneous (skin) sarcoidosis — associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, according to a new case report. The study, “Chronic verrucous sarcoidosis associated with human papillomavirus infection:…
Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia, a rare lung disease, can develop in patients with sarcoidosis, according to a new case study from India. The report, “Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia with Sarcoidosis Overlap: An Atypical Case Study,” was published in the journal Case Reports in Medicine. Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia, also known…
Levels of endocan, an indicator of inflammation, can be used as a predictive biomarker for the involvement of the cardiovascular system and the development of atherosclerosis in patients with sarcoidosis, a new study shows. The study titled, “Endocan Levels and Endothelial Dysfunction in Patients With Sarcoidosis,” was published…
A newly established registry for patients with sarcoidosis associated with pulmonary hypertension sheds light on characteristics and treatment patterns that can be used for future randomized clinical trials, according to researchers. Their study, “Clinical features of sarcoidosis associated pulmonary hypertension: Results of a multi-national registry,” was…
In rare cases of sarcoidosis, patients may have high blood calcium levels (hypercalcemia), scarring on the scalp, and kidney failure, according to a new report. The case report, titled “Symptomatic hypercalcemia and scarring alopecia as presenting features of sarcoidosis,” was published in the journal Baylor University…
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