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Sarcoidosis: Occurs
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Sarcoidosis is not a cancer. It is not contagious, and your friends and family will not catch it from you. Although it can occur in families, there is no evidence that sarcoidosis is passed from parents to children.
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Sarcoidosis is mainly a disease of young adults, with onset between the ages of 20 and 40 years old. Occurrence of the disease can ... be found in children and the elderly.
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Life-threatening hemoptysis may occur in advanced fibrocystic sarcoidosis with bronchiectasis and mycetomas. Surgical resection and embolization of bronchial arteries may control the bleeding. Hemoptysis ... may respond to conservative management with antibiotics, corticosteroids, bed rest, and cough suppression.
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In Illinois, deaths attributed to sarcoidosis steadily increased between 1969 and 1994. It is unclear whether the number and rate are up due to increased occurrence of the disease, increased recognition and reporting, or both. The year with the most recorded sarcoidosis deaths--36--was 1992. The three-year mortality rate was 0.8 deaths per million population for 1969-71, 1.2 for 1974-76, 1.6 for 1979-81, 2.0 for 1984-86, 2.6 for 1989-91 and 2.8 for 1992-94.
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In addition, Dr. Sharma is conducting HL-A testing in sarcoidosis to study genetic susceptibility. The disease tends not to run in families; but, in families where sarcoidosis has occurred, the disease appears among siblings rather than siblings and parents. This indicates that sarcoidosis may be caused by environmental factors.
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Pulmonary sarcoidosis can develop into pulmonary fibrosis, which distorts the structure of the lungs and can interfere with breathing. Bronchiectasis, a lung disease in which pockets form in the air tubes of the lung and become sites for infection, can ... occur.
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