Özge Özkaya, PhD,  —

The results of a clinical study conducted over 20 years in a group of patients seen and treated at three large teaching hospitals in London shows that patients with sarcoidosis who experience an inflammatory optic neuropathy, or damage to the optic nerve due to inflammation, respond to treatment with corticosteroids.

It is important to perform a lung biopsy when a change in chest X-ray is seen during pulmonary sarcoidosis monitoring, according to research conducted by Japanese scientists. This way, the rare possibility of complication with multicentric Castleman’s disease (MCD) can be ruled out or in the rare case it is diagnosed, appropriate treatment can be given to the patient.

Weight loss and digestive symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and digestive bleeding could be linked to digestive tract sarcoidosis (DTS), especially in patients of African and Afro-Caribbean origin, according to a study conducted by French researchers.

There may be an association between the level of inflammation in sarcoidosis patients and their risk of developing pulmonary hypertension (PH), according to a new study.