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Lungs.If you have permanent scarring in your lungs, it can get harder to breathe. You might develop a condition calledpulmonary hypertension, a type of high blood pressure affecting the blood vessels in your lungs. It can make your heart work harder than normal to get blood into your lungs...
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Clinical characteristics, haemodynamics and treatment of pulmonary hypertension in sarcoidosis in a single centre, and meta-analysis of the published data. Pulmonary hypertension (PH) in sarcoidosis is associated with bad outcomes. Although there is interest in using pulmonary vasodilators (PVs) for PH...
including medications that suppress the immune system and that decrease inflammation. Associated conditions such as fatigue, depression,hypercalcemia(increased calcium levels in the blood), kidney stones, andpulmonary hypertension(elevated vascular pressures in the lungs, which can adversely affect breathing ...
3 to 6 months of cytotoxic and immunosuppressive treatment is required to determine whether a response has occurred. For patients who respond, the duration of treatment should be 9 to 12 months. Bosentan (up to 125 mg daily) can significantly reduce pulmonary hypertension but has not been shown...
This is particularly the case with corticosteroids that may be responsible for overweight, systemic arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, myopathy, buffalo neck etc. Treatment The appropriate therapy for sarcoidosis has not yet been well defined for all patients [3, 7, 9]. Between 30 and 70%...
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treatment for it showed my sarcoidosic granule are not of severe form anyway if your sarcoidosis ace test shows high levels you may be prescribed prednisone-and if so watch out taking it as prescribed for it may trigger some serious condition such as hypertension, diabetes and even glaucoma. ...
Pulmonary hypertension in advanced sarcoidosis: epidemiology and clinical characteristics Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a predictor of poor outcome in sarcoidosis. Little is known about the epidemiology of PH in sarcoidosis. The current authors... AF Shorr,DL Helman,DB Davies,... - 《European Respi...