Sarcoid pleural effusion: a report of two cases.
Two patients with pleural effusions have been seen among 270 patients with sarcoidosis in an eighteen-year period. In both patients pleural effusions were present at the onset of sarcoidosis and associated with extensive pulmonary or extrathoracic involvement. Pleural effusions were exudative with a high lymphocyte count. One patient was successfully treated with corticosteroids and the second died from cardiac complications of the disease.
Salazar
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Department of Internal Medicine, Bellvitge Hospital, University of Barcelona, Spain.
Mañá
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Corbella
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Vidaller
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D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011859:Radiography; D017565:Sarcoidosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology
D011241:Prednisone