Pilar Brito-Zerón, Roberto Pérez-Alvarez, Carles Feijoo-Massó, Borja Gracia-Tello, Andres González-García, Ricardo Gómez-de-la-Torre, Ana Alguacil, Miguel López-Dupla, Angel Robles, Salvador Garcia-Morillo, Mariona Bonet, Gracia Cruz-Caparrós, Eva Fonseca-Aizpuru, Miriam Akasbi, Jose Luis Callejas, Borja de Miguel-Campo, Marta Pérez-de-Lis, Manuel Ramos-Casals
OBJECTIVE: To analyze whether immune-mediated diseases (IMDs) occurs in sarcoidosis more commonly than expected in the general population, and how concomitant IMDs influence the clinical presentation of the disease. METHODS: We searched for coexisting IMDs in patients included in the SARCOGEAS-cohort, a multicenter nationwide database of consecutive patients diagnosed according to the ATS/ESC/WASOG criteria. Comparisons were made considering the presence or absence of IMD clustering, and odds ratios (OR) and their 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated as the ratio of observed cases of every IMD in the sarcoidosis cohort to the observed cases in the general population...
December 2021: Joint, Bone, Spine: Revue du Rhumatisme