There has been considerable disagreement about the prognostic value of bronchoalveolar lavage lymphocyte measurements in patients with sarcoidosis. This study looks at the influence of the type of disease presentation and the time since onset of symptoms on lavage fluid lymphocyte profiles in 99 patients studied at the time of their initial diagnosis. Patients who had an acute inflammatory onse...

INTRODUCTION Erythema nodosum is often associated with a distressing symptomatology, including painful subcutaneous nodules, polyarthropathy, and significant fatigue. Whilst it is a well-documented side-effect of estrogen therapy in females, we describe what we believe to be the first report in the literature of erythema nodosum as a result of estrogen therapy in a male. CASE PRESENTATION A 6...

Erythema nodosum is a septal panniculitis that typically presents as symmetric, tender nodules on the anterior aspects of bilateral lower extremities. Nearly half of cases are due to secondary causes, with oral contraceptive pills being the leading pharmaceutical cause. However, to our knowledge, there has yet to be a published association with norethindrone acetate, ethinyl estradiol, and ferr...

Introduction: Erythema nodosum may be the first sign of a systemic disease such as tuberculosis, viral, bacterial or fungal infections such as coccidioidomycosis. Other causes include sarcoidosis, inflammatory bowel disease, cancers, pregnancy/hormone related, idiopathic, and medication side effects. Diagnosing the primary cause of this skin manifestation may help a clinician find the underlyin...

Erythemi'nodosum leprosum is a fairly common complication of lepromatous leprosy and is variously reported to occur in 30 to 40% of all patients with lepromatous leprosy on sulphone treatment (Buu Hoi and Basset, 1963; Cochrane, 1964; Job et al, 1964). As yet there is no satisfactory explanation of the mechanism of production of erythema nodosum leprosum. Among the many hypotheses postulated, t...

We report a patient with Chagas' disease that presented Trypanosoma cruzi reactivation after cardiac transplantation and immunodepression, characterized by skin lesions of erythema nodosum. This is an unusual presentation of Chagas' disease.