Disease Burden and Variability in Sarcoidosis

Comparison between Iranian health scientific outputs and disease burden

Background and aim: One of the most important infrastructures for the development and progress of countries is scientific outputs and targeted research to meet the needs of society and reduce the disease burden. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the number of scientific outputs indexed in PubMed, related to ten diseases with the highest mortality rate in Iran and t...

In-Hospital Disease Burden of Sarcoidosis in Switzerland from 2002 to 2012

Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disease with an unpredictable and sometimes fatal course while the underlying pathomechanism is still unclear. Reasons of the increasing hospitalization rate and mortality in the United States remain in dispute but incriminated are a number of distinct comorbidities and risk factors as well as the application of more aggressive therapeutic agents. Studies reflecting...

Sarcoidosis and Kidney Disease

Sarcoidosis is an illness of granulomatous inflammation with multi-organ association. While most individuals exhibit pulmonary pathology, renal involvement is not without prevalence or significance. This chapter will review the current epidemiology of the disease and explore the two major pathways in the pathogenesis of renal sarcoidosis, mainly granulomatous deposition and deranged calcium man...

Kaposi's disease and sarcoidosis.

A human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody-negative 65 year old woman was treated with corticosteroids for 7 yrs because of bilateral uveitis. One year after the beginning of corticosteroid treatment, erythematous skin lesions appeared on the legs. Eight years after the diagnosis of uveitis, gastric and bronchial biopsies revealed noncaseating epithelioid cell granulomas, whilst a cutaneous ...

Airways Disease in Sarcoidosis