Vikas Agarwal, Vinita Agrawal, Amita Aggarwal, Parshant Aggarwal, Abhra C Chowdhury, Parasar Ghosh, Avinash Jain, Able Lawrence, Durga P Misra, Ramnath Misra, Madhusmita M Mohapatra, Alok Nath, Vir S Negi, Sapan Pandya, Vishnu V Reddy, Shiva Prasad, Aman Sharma, Vineeta Shobha, Yogesh P Singh, Saumya R Tripathy, Anupam Wakhlu
INTRODUCTION: Ten to 15% of patients with sarcoidosis have associated arthritis. Chronic arthritis is fairly uncommon. There is a paucity of data on articular manifestations of the disease from India. METHODS: Case records of adult patients with sarcoidosis presenting to 11 rheumatology centers from 2005 to 2017 were retrospectively reviewed. Joint involvement was assessed clinically, classified as acute or chronic depending on duration of symptoms less or greater than 6 months, respectively...
September 2018: International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases