Diagnosis and Detection of Sarcoidosis
Key Points
Key Points
- a compatible clinical presentation
- finding non-necrotizing granulomatous inflammation in one or more tissue samples
- the exclusion of alternative causes of granulomatous disease.
Diagnosis
...Diagnosis
...Lymph Node Samplin...
...for whom there is a high clinical suspicion for sa...
...or patients presenting with asymptomatic, b...
...s with suspected sarcoidosis and medias...
...Screenin...
...ith sarcoidosis who do not have ocular sym...
...r patients with sarcoidosis who have nei...
...r patients with sarcoidosis who have neit...
...r patients with sarcoidosis who have neither...
...ients with sarcoidosis who do not have sy...
...ssment of vitamin metabolism is deemed...
...he ATS suggests that patients with sarc...
...ents with extracardiac sarcoidosis who do not hav...
...patients with extracardiac sarcoidosis who do no...
...Diagnost...
...r patients with extracardiac sarcoidosis...
For patients with extracardiac sarcoidosis...
...ts with sarcoidosis in whom pulmonary h...
...ients with sarcoidosis in whom PH is su...
...with sarcoidosis in whom PH is suspected...
...cal Features Supportive of a Diagnosis of...
...2. Key Pathological Features of Sarcoidosis...
...omparison of pulmonary sarcoidosis granuloma hist...
...Infectious and Noninfectious Differential...
Table 4. Key Differential Diagnoses for Sarcoido...
...le 5. Best Practice Recommendations for Detection...
...Typical ECG and radiographic features of car...
...3. Schematic of recommended diagnostic alg...