Biomarkers in the diagnosis and prognosis of sarcoidosis: current use and future prospects

R Kraaijvanger, M Janssen Bonás… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Sarcoidosis is a heterogeneous disease in terms of presentation, duration, and severity. Due
to this heterogeneity, it is difficult to align treatment decisions. Biomarkers have proved to be …

Sarcoidosis: causes, diagnosis, clinical features, and treatments

R Jain, D Yadav, N Puranik, R Guleria… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease with nonspecific clinical manifestations
that commonly affects the pulmonary system and other organs including the eyes, skin, liver …

Clinically-useful serum biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis of sarcoidosis

M Ramos-Casals, S Retamozo… - Expert Review of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Sarcoidosis is a complex systemic disease with a silent, long-term evolution,
and a heterogeneous clinical presentation. The diagnostic approach is complex with no …

[HTML][HTML] Sarcoid-like reaction in a patient recovering from coronavirus disease 19 pneumonia

S Behbahani, JO Baltz, R Droms, AC Deng… - JAAD Case Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
Discussion Noncaseating granulomas, often called sarcoidal granulomas or a sarcoid-like
immune reaction, are histologically indistinguishable. 2 Although the etiology of sarcoidosis …

Personalized medicine in sarcoidosis: unravelling biomarkers for targeted care

J Francesqui, P Marrades… - Current opinion in …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
These findings have implications for clinical practice and research. The limitations of
established biomarkers underscore the need for improved diagnostic tools in sarcoidosis …

Sarcoid uveitis: an intriguing challenger

P Allegri, S Olivari, F Rissotto, R Rissotto - Medicina, 2022 - mdpi.com
The purpose of our work is to describe the actual knowledge concerning etiopathogenesis,
clinical manifestations, diagnostic procedures, complications and therapy of ocular …

Cardiac sarcoidosis: a comprehensive review of risk factors, pathogenesis, diagnosis, clinical manifestations, and treatment strategies

HH Shah, SA Zehra, A Shahrukh, R Waseem… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Cardiac Sarcoidosis (CS) is a deadly consequence of systemic sarcoidosis that inflames all
three layers of the heart, especially the myocardium—clinical signs of CS range from …

The risk of sarcoidosis misdiagnosis and the harmful effect of corticosteroids when the disease picture is incomplete

RI Arcana, R Crișan-Dabija, AT Cernomaz, I Buculei… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Sarcoidosis is a complex granulomatous disease of unknown etiology. Due to the
heterogeneity of the disease, the diagnosis remains challenging in many cases, often at the …

Angiotensin-converting enzyme affects the presentation of MHC class II antigens

T Zhao, KE Bernstein, J Fang, XZ Shen - Laboratory investigation, 2017 - nature.com
Antigen processing and presentation through the MHC class II pathway is critical for
activating T helper cells. Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) is a carboxyl peptidase …

[HTML][HTML] Chitotriosidase gene polymorphisms and mutations limit the determination of chitotriosidase expression in sarcoidosis

A Csongrádi, IT Altorjay, GÁ Fülöp, A Enyedi… - Clinica Chimica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Serum chitotriosidase (CTO) activity was proposed as a biomarker in sarcoidosis being
potentially useful in diagnostics. Nevertheless, a common duplication polymorphism (c …