Interstitial Lung Disease News

Close monitoring by a multidisciplinary team may allow pregnant women with interstitial lung disease secondary to autoimmune disease to avoid terminating their pregnancy, according to a presenter at ACR Convergence 2020 virtual meeting.

Patients diagnosed with sarcoidosis experienced greater risk for HF and other adverse CV outcomes compared with the general population, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Among patients with sarcoidosis, higher medication adherence was associated with improved health-related quality of life, with Black patients more likely to report medication nonadherence, according to observational data published in Chest.

A study recently published in The BMJ suggests that the number of total deaths worldwide due to chronic respiratory diseases has increased during the past 3 decades, although age-standardized mortality rates have generally declined.

The “black sheep” in a family of already unusual diseases, Löfgren syndrome presents acutely unlike the subtle onset and gradual disease progression characteristic of other types of sarcoidosis. Although often defined by a unique triad of symptoms, Löfgren syndrome still relies on a diagnosis of exclusion, and is often mistaken for other rheumatologic and infectious conditions.

Repository corticotropin injections demonstrated viability as an intervention for patients with advanced symptomatic sarcoidosis, with 95% of individuals in a recent cohort showing overall improvement.

New data from a single-center study indicate that not only was the rate of mortality high among patients with advanced pulmonary sarcoidosis who were awaiting lung transplant, but the lung allocation score did not predict death on the waitlist in this patient population.

Healio Pulmonology has you covered. The Editors have compiled a list of the most-popular articles posted on Healio Pulmonology in June.

In a new study, sarcoidosis appeared to require a high index of suspicion in elderly patients because older patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis presented with more severe disease and worse outcomes compared with younger patients.

Healio Pulmonology has you covered. The Editors have compiled a list of the most-popular articles posted on Healio Pulmonology in May.