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Can one predict who will relapse from sarcoidosis?http://ow.ly/qYAP2Granulomatous inflammation in the lung may occur from a variety of causes.Many of these are the result of specific antigens that reach the lung and induce a granulomatous response.A prototype of this schema is pulmonary tuberculosis where the organism serves as the inciting antigen.Treatment of tuberculosis is aimed at killing and clearing the organism.It would be foolhardy and potentially lethal to solely treat the granulomatous inflammation of tuberculosis with immunosuppressive anti-granulomatous medications.
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