Concepedia

Recurrent Pleural and Pericardial Effusions Due to Sarcoidosis

Sankar D. Navaneethan, Sundar Venkatesh, Rakesh Shrivastava, Jagat Mehta, Robert H. Israel

PLoS Medicine · 2005 · 29 citations · 6 references

DOIFull text

Open access

Concepts

Abstract

A 54-year-old man presented with fever, shortness of breath, and left-sided pleuritic chest pain. His bilateral pleural effusions and pericardial effusion turned out to be due to sarcoidosis

References

6

Joint Statement of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the World Association of Sarcoidosis and Other Granulomatous Disorders (WASOG) adopted by the ATS Board of Directors and by the ERS Executive Committee, February 1999

Statement on sarcoidosis · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 1999 · 2K citations

, , +6

Medical progress:sarcoidosis

EN Li-ping, Pumc Hospita · Zhonghua linchuang mianyi he biantai fanying zazhi · 2008 · 719 citations

British Thoracic Society Sarcoidosis study: effects of long term corticosteroid treatment.

Geoffrey Gibson, R.J. Prescott, M F Muers et al. · Thorax · 1996 · 348 citations · Full text

, , +13

Sarcoid heart disease.

Jaffer Syed, Robert B.H. Myers · PubMed · 2004 · 31 citations

, , +10

Pericardial effusion concomitant with specific heart muscle disease in systemic sarcoidosis.

Nestor Angomachalelis, A Hourzamanis, Nikos Salem et al. · PubMed · 1994 · 23 citations

, , +17