What is sarcoidosis

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It is easy to cause serious complications, and the need for timely treatment of sarcoidosis itself. Let's see what sarcoidosis is.

What is sarcoidosis

First of all: sarcoidosis is a non caseous necrotizing epithelial granuloma inflammatory disease with unknown etiology. It mainly invades the lung parenchyma and involves multiple organs of the whole body, such as lymph nodes, skin, joints, liver, kidney and heart. The clinical course is more insidious. The patient may die suddenly due to complete atrioventricular block and (or) congestive heart failure, even leading to sudden death He had symptoms. Therefore, in a similar situation, timely treatment is very important.

Secondly: sarcoidosis is a systemic disease, in addition to the heart, other organs, especially the lung, lymph nodes, skin can be affected. There may be fever, discomfort, anorexia, weight loss, dry cough, wheezing, dyspnea, spotted or papular rash and joint pain.

Finally: because most patients can relieve themselves, stable and asymptomatic patients do not need treatment. Hormone therapy can be used for patients with stage II and III and extrathoracic sarcoidosis with obvious symptoms, such as eye sarcoidosis, sarcoidosis invasion of nervous system, skin and myocardial involvement, continuous increase of blood calcium and urine calcium, and obvious increase of SACE level. Prednisone is commonly used. It is gradually reduced after 4 weeks and maintained for one year or more. Long term use of glucocorticoids should be closely observed side effects of hormones, followed by chloroquine, methotrexate, azathioprine, cyclophosphamide and other treatment.

matters needing attention

Patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis should first enhance their confidence and patience in treatment. Most patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis can be cured by treatment or natural remission, but the recovery process is slow. To avoid the occurrence of complications, it is necessary to monitor the parts that may produce complications.