Challenges in Cardiac and Pulmonary Sarcoidosis: JACC State-of-the-Art Review

MG Trivieri, P Spagnolo, D Birnie, P Liu… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - jacc.org
Sarcoidosis is a complex disease with heterogeneous clinical presentations that can affect
virtually any organ. Although the lung is typically the most common organ involved …

Sarcoidosis: causes, diagnosis, clinical features, and treatments

R Jain, D Yadav, N Puranik, R Guleria… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease with nonspecific clinical manifestations
that commonly affects the pulmonary system and other organs including the eyes, skin, liver …

ERS clinical practice guidelines on treatment of sarcoidosis

RP Baughman, D Valeyre, P Korsten… - European …, 2021 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Background The major reasons to treat sarcoidosis are to lower the morbidity and mortality
risk or to improve quality of life (QoL). The indication for treatment varies depending on …

Inhibition of type 1 immunity with tofacitinib is associated with marked improvement in longstanding sarcoidosis

W Damsky, A Wang, DJ Kim, BD Young, K Singh… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Sarcoidosis is an idiopathic inflammatory disorder that is commonly treated with
glucocorticoids. An imprecise understanding of the immunologic changes underlying …

Treatment of sarcoidosis: a multidisciplinary approach

AK Gerke - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease of unknown etiology defined by the presence of
noncaseating granulomatous inflammation that can cause organ damage and diminished …

Anti-TNFα therapy in inflammatory lung diseases

R Malaviya, JD Laskin, DL Laskin - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2017 - Elsevier
Increased levels of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) α have been linked to a number of
pulmonary inflammatory diseases including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease …

IFN-γ–producing T-helper 17.1 cells are increased in sarcoidosis and are more prevalent than T-helper type 1 cells

J Ramstein, CE Broos, LJ Simpson… - American journal of …, 2016 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Pulmonary sarcoidosis is classically defined by T-helper (Th) cell type 1
inflammation (eg, IFN-γ production by CD4+ effector T cells). Recently, IL-17A–secreting …

Delphi consensus recommendations for a treatment algorithm in pulmonary sarcoidosis

FF Rahaghi, RP Baughman… - European …, 2020 - publications.ersnet.org
Pulmonary sarcoidosis presents substantial management challenges, with limited evidence
on effective therapies and phenotypes. In the absence of definitive evidence, expert …

Remicade® (infliximab): 20 years of contributions to science and medicine

R Melsheimer, A Geldhof, I Apaolaza… - Biologics: Targets and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract On August 24, 1998, Remicade®(infliximab), the first tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF)
inhibitor, received its initial marketing approval from the US Food and Drug Administration …

Infliximab for the treatment of CNS sarcoidosis: a multi-institutional series

JM Gelfand, MJ Bradshaw, BJ Stern, DB Clifford… - Neurology, 2017 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To describe clinical and imaging responses in neurosarcoidosis to infliximab, a
monoclonal antibody against tumor necrosis factor–α. Methods: Investigators at 6 US …