Clinical and epidemiological manifestation of 100 patients with sarcoidosis and sarcoid arthritis

sarcoidosis is a multiorgan granulomatosis disease with unknown origin. Lofgren syndrome is an acute form of it that consists of ankle periarthritis, erythema nodosum and bilateral hilar adenopathy.Patients & in this study we evaluated 100 participants whose sarcoidosis confirmed clinical and paraclinical data. All participants answered to a general questionnaire regarding disease manifestations and epidemiologic data. acute sarcoidosis was more common in females than males (71% vs 29%) and most commonly occured in the age of 40-50 year. Among those patients, 93% had acute course of disease, 91% presented with arthritis. 67% developed erythema nodusom,10% uveitis. and 41% constitutional symptoms. Positive family history of sarcoidosis was found in 2% of them. Moreover a Abnormal chest radiography (para-hilar lymphadenopathy) was found in 94% of patients. ESR was increased in most of patients but the blood cell count remained unchanged. The most common presentations of sarcoidosis in its acute subtype were ankle peri-arthritis and erythema nodosum. The most paraclinical finding was para-hilar lymphadenopathy. Elevated ESR was also significant.