title: Clinical management of pulmonary sarcoidosis.
abstract: Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disease for which diagnosis relies on the integration of clinical, radiologic, laboratory, and pathologic information. Assessment of clinical features is an important part of the disease evaluation. Computer Tomography provides information not available on routine chest roentgenogram which can assist diagnosing and establishing extent of disease. Monitoring for pulmonary and extra-pulmonary disease facilitates disease management. Patients with quality of life affecting symptoms or threatened end organ damage require systemic treatment which can be recommended in a stepwise fashion. Here, we provide guidance for the initial assessment, disease monitoring, and treatment recommendations for pulmonary and extra pulmonary disease.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Internal Medicine , University of Cincinnati Medical Center , Cincinnati , OH , USA.|b Department of Respiratory Medicine , Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine , Shanghai , China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: a Department of Internal Medicine , University of Cincinnati Medical Center , Cincinnati , OH , USA.
authors.forename: Elyse E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Lower
authors.affiliation: b Department of Respiratory Medicine , Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine , Shanghai , China.
authors.forename: Huiping
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: a Department of Internal Medicine , University of Cincinnati Medical Center , Cincinnati , OH , USA.
authors.forename: Robert P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Baughman
mesh_terms: D019468:Disease Management; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D017565:Sarcoidosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D063189:Symptom Assessment
keywords: CT scan; Infliximab; Methotrexate; PET scan; Prednisone; Sarcoidosis; pulmonary