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To evaluate the long-term prognosis of intrathoracic sarcoidosis at five or more years of follow-up in relation to initial chest radiographic findings.

November 4, 1961BMJOpen Access

Prognosis of Intrathoracic Sarcoidosis in England

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JSJ. G. ScaddingImperial College London

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Longitudinal cohort study reveals long-term prognosis across radiographic stages in intrathoracic sarcoidosis, highlighting initial chest radiographic patterns as critical predictors of outcome.

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To evaluate the long-term prognosis of intrathoracic sarcoidosis at five or more years of follow-up in relation to initial chest radiographic findings.
Reviewed 136 patients with intrathoracic sarcoidosis initially evaluated before June 1955 and followed for five years or more through late 1960.
Classified patients into four baseline radiographic groups: Group 1 with enlarged hilar lymph nodes only (n=32), Group 2 with pulmonary mottling and hilar lymphadenopathy (n=40), Group 3 with pulmonary mottling without hilar node enlargement (n=37), and Group 4 with radiographic and clinical evidence of fibrosis (n=27).
Baseline radiographic presentation defined distinct prognostic trajectories across 136 monitored patients over a minimum 5-year follow-up period.
Patients presented with varying degrees of intrathoracic involvement at presentation, establishing an association between initial chest radiograph classification and subsequent disease resolution or persistence.

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J. G. Scadding (1961) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aaa4aed6a4fb9f99a57c0ef https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.2.5261.1165

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Longitudinal cohort study reveals long-term prognosis across radiographic stages in intrathoracic sarcoidosis, highlighting initial chest radiographic patterns as critical predictors of outcome.

Prognosis of Intrathoracic Sarcoidosis in England

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Prognosis of Intrathoracic Sarcoidosis in England

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