Summary
Definition
History and exam
Key diagnostic factors
- cough
- dyspnea
- chronic fatigue
- arthralgia
- wheezing
- rhonchi
- lymphadenopathy
- photophobia
- red painful eye
- blurred vision
- erythema nodosum
- lupus pernio
- conjunctival nodules
- facial palsy
Other diagnostic factors
- absent history of exposure to beryllium
- chest wall pain
- hemoptysis
- weight loss
- low-grade fever
- arrhythmias
- heart block
- hepatomegaly
- headache
- seizures
- symptoms and signs of pituitary lesion
Risk factors
- age 20-50 years
- family history of sarcoidosis
- Scandinavian origin
- female sex
- nonsmokers
- black ancestry
- black ancestry: uveitis
- Puerto Rican origin: lupus pernio
- European origin: erythema nodosum
Diagnostic tests
1st tests to order
- chest x-ray
- CBC
- serum BUN
- serum creatinine
- liver enzymes
- serum calcium
- PFTs
- ECG
- eye exam
- interferon gamma release assay
Tests to consider
- serum ACE
- CT scan of chest
- endobronchial ultrasound-transbronchial needle aspiration
- bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL)
- skin biopsy
- 24-hour urine calcium
- gallium-67 scan
- vitamin D
- MRI
- (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET scan
Emerging tests
- 3'-deoxy-3'-[18F]-fluorothymidine (FLT) PET scan
- 4'-[methyl-11C]-thiothymidine PET/CT scan
Treatment algorithm
acute respiratory failure unable to tolerate oral intake
acute respiratory failure able to tolerate oral intake
pulmonary disease
cutaneous disease
ocular disease
cardiovascular disease
central nervous system or peripheral nervous system involvement
renal disease
Contributors
Authors
Muthiah P. Muthiah, MD, FCCP
Acting Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
VA Medical Center, Memphis
Professor & Vice Chair of Medicine
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis
TN
Disclosures
MPM declares that he has no competing interests.
Amr El Gamal, MD, FCCP
Pulmonary and Critical Care
Medical Service
VA Medical Center
Martinsburg
Assistant Professor of Medicine
West Virginia University
Morgantown
WV
Disclosures
AEG declares that he has served as a reviewer for the American Physician Institute.
Peer reviewers
George Swingler, MD
Professor
School of Child and Adolescent Health
Red Cross Children's Hospital
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch
Cape Town
South Africa
Disclosures
GS declares that he has no competing interests.
Kyle Hogarth, MD, FCCP
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care
University of Chicago
Chicago
IL
Disclosures
KH declares that he has no competing interests.
Marc Judson, MD
Chief
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
AMC Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Albany
NY
利益声明
MJ declares that he has no competing interests.
Nadera Sweiss, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Section of Rheumatology
Department of Medicine
University of Chicago
Chicago
IL
利益声明
NS declares that she has no competing interests.
Peer reviewer acknowledgements
BMJ Best Practice topics are updated on a rolling basis in line with developments in evidence and guidance. The peer reviewers listed here have reviewed the content at least once during the history of the topic.
Disclosures
Peer reviewer affiliations and disclosures pertain to the time of the review.
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