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
Diagnos...
...Node Sampling...
...r whom there is a high clinical suspicion for s...
...r patients presenting with asymptomatic, bil...
...s with suspected sarcoidosis and mediastina...
...for Extrapulmonary Disease...
...with sarcoidosis who do not have ocular sym...
...or patients with sarcoidosis who have n...
...th sarcoidosis who have neither hepatic symp...
...patients with sarcoidosis who have neither he...
...ts with sarcoidosis who do not have...
...essment of vitamin metabolism is deemed...
...e ATS suggests that patients with sarcoidosi...
...with extracardiac sarcoidosis who do...
...atients with extracardiac sarcoidosis who do not h...
...agnostic Evaluation of Suspected Extrapulmona...
...nts with extracardiac sarcoidosis and s...
...ts with extracardiac sarcoidosis and suspected car...
...ith sarcoidosis in whom pulmonary hypertension...
...atients with sarcoidosis in whom PH is...
...r patients with sarcoidosis in whom PH is suspect...
...Clinical Features Supportive of a Diagn...
...Pathological Features of SarcoidosisHaving tr...
...rison of pulmonary sarcoidosis granuloma...
Table 3. Key Infectious and Noninfect...
...Key Differential Diagnoses for Sarcoidosis wit...
...e 5. Best Practice Recommendations for De...
...pical ECG and radiographic feature...
...Schematic of recommended diagnostic alg...