Older patients tend to show fewer symptoms and abnormal lab results typically associated with ocular sarcoidosis than younger patients, making diagnosis more difficult, a study has found. These findings highlight the need for more studies to explore and find other types of symptoms that could assist with disease diagnosis…

Elderly-onset sarcoidosis patients have different disease and diagnostic features compared to younger-onset patients, researchers from Turkey have found. Sarcoidosis is often diagnosed in young patients between the ages of 25 and 40.  But 30% of the cases are usually diagnosed in older individuals. So there are two forms of the…

The levels of two blood-circulating microRNAs, called microRNA-126 and microRNA-223, may work as new biomarkers for cardiac sarcoidosis, according to researchers. Their small study, “Serum microRNA-126 and -223 as new-generation biomarkers for sarcoidosis in patients with heart failure,” was published in the Journal of Cardiology. Cardiac…

The occurrence of sarcoidosis and sarcoma — a rare type of cancer — at the same time or one after the other may be more common than previously thought, according to a small study. These results highlight a potential association between these two distinct diseases, which could change…

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…

Neurosarcoidosis — a rare form of sarcoidosis affecting the central nervous system — can be misdiagnosed as meningitis because of similarities in neurological symptoms, a case study from Mexico reports.  Meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes, called meninges, that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord.

The risk of sarcoidosis is higher in families with a history of the disease, according to researchers from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. The study reporting the findings is titled “Familial Aggregation and Heritability of Sarcoidosis: A Swedish Nested Case-Control Study,” and was published in the…

Penn Medicine‘s app for sarcoidosis patients, Apple’s ResearchKit, is now available on android. Patients with android phones, Google Pixel and Samsung, for example, now can download the app from the Google Play store. The announcement was shared on the website of the Foundation for Sarcoidosis…

A G908R mutation in the NOD2 gene is an indicator of familial sarcoidosis, according to a French study. When present in combination with IL17RA, EPHA2, and KALRN gene variants, it influences disease progression, researchers reported. Their study, “G908R NOD2 variant in a family with sarcoidosis,” was published…