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
...agnosis
...Node Sampling...
...for whom there is a high clinical suspicion for...
...ts presenting with asymptomatic, bil...
...s with suspected sarcoidosis and mediastin...
...for Extrapulmonary Disease...
...patients with sarcoidosis who do not have...
For patients with sarcoidosis who have nei...
...ts with sarcoidosis who have neither hepatic symp...
...with sarcoidosis who have neither hepatic s...
...or patients with sarcoidosis who do not have sympt...
...ent of vitamin metabolism is deemed necessary in...
...e ATS suggests that patients with sarcoidosis un...
...with extracardiac sarcoidosis who do not have ca...
...ts with extracardiac sarcoidosis who do not hav...
Diagnostic Evaluation of Suspected Extrap...
...with extracardiac sarcoidosis and s...
...tients with extracardiac sarcoidosis and susp...
...with sarcoidosis in whom pulmonary hypertensio...
...patients with sarcoidosis in whom PH is suspected...
For patients with sarcoidosis in whom PH is s...
...al Features Supportive of a Diagnosis o...
...Pathological Features of SarcoidosisH...
...igure 1. Comparison of pulmonary sarcoidosis...
.... Key Infectious and Noninfectious Differ...
...fferential Diagnoses for Sarcoidosis...
...ble 5. Best Practice Recommendations for Detecti...
...pical ECG and radiographic features of cardiac...
Figure 3. Schematic of recommended diagnosti...