How to Use sarcoidosis in a Sentence

sarcoidosis

noun
  • Among those who received the soon-to-expire doses of the vaccine was his wife, who has the lung disease pulmonary sarcoidosis.
    Joanne Rosa, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The following year, doctors found sarcoidosis in his lungs, too.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
  • This can lead to sarcoidosis, to creating a concrete-hard microball or shard.
    Brandon Keim, WIRED, 9 Sep. 2011
  • Others, such as those seen in Sickle cell disease, and sarcoidosis can attack other parts of the bones or the soft tissue in your fingers.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • Those affected by sarcoidosis also share their stories on the page.
    Gerald Porter, Daily Southtown, 9 June 2017
  • The cause of death is sarcoidosis involving lungs, heart, spleen, hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
  • She was diagnosed with uveitis and sarcoidosis of the eye – which includes blurred vision, photophobia, floaters, redness and pain — in 1999.
    Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The symptoms of sarcoidosis vary depending on which organs the disease affects.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 26 Sep. 2023
  • That is how my own myocardial sarcoidosis was diagnosed almost five years ago.
    WSJ, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Gokal said he was faced with two options: throwing away the last dose, or administering it to his wife, who suffers from pulmonary sarcoidosis, a lung disease that leaves her short of breath and that can be fatal.
    Natacha Larnaud, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2021
  • Black patients are most commonly coupled with sickle cell and sarcoidosis.
    Jennifer W. Tsai, STAT, 11 July 2018
  • Blaque, the voter suffering from sarcoidosis, told CNN later that the president did not answer her question, and she's now decided who's getting her vote.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Krayzie Bone did tell the outlet in 2016 that he had been diagnosed with sarcoidosis, though it’s not known yet if the September hospitalization was connected to the condition.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Seven had arthritis as a symptom, and four had been diagnosed with rheumatologic diseases, such as psoriasis of the skin or sarcoidosis, which causes swollen lumps in the body.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
  • As a young man, Reggie White was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a disease capable of causing mild to serious inflammation in his lungs, but one that could lie dormant for years.
    Théoden Janes, charlotteobserver, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Dearring underwent a double lung transplant in 2015 due to congestive heart failure and sarcoidosis — a chronic disease that causes lesions in the lungs and other organs.
    Navya Gupta, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2022
  • Nine months later she was diagnosed with sarcoidosis of the central nervous system, a rare disease which causes inflamed cells to become granular and attack soft tissue.
    Liz McNeil, PEOPLE.com, 13 Apr. 2022
  • While sarcoidosis sometimes runs in families, it is not considered a hereditary disease.
    Mayo Clinic News Network, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The rapper had previously told TMZ in 2016, that he had been diagnosed with sarcoidosis, though it is not known if his September hospitalization was connected to the condition.
    Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The relationship between race and certain diseases, such as diabetes, sarcoidosis and lupus, is complex or not well understood.
    Ashley Andreou, Scientific American, 7 June 2021
  • Abrought has diabetes, sarcoidosis and congestive heart failure.
    Andrew Marso, kansascity, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Still, Pete’s sarcoidosis (an incurable inflammatory condition) had been wreaking havoc on his body for years.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The actor died of cardiac arrest and complications of pneumonia stemming from his longtime struggle with sarcoidosis, a disease that causes tissue inflammation that often attacked his lungs.
    Nigel Smith, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Other skin diseases can appear too: eczema (inflamed, itchy, irritated skin); vitiligo (a loss of skin pigment in blotches); sarcoidosis (an inflammatory disease); lichen planus (flat, itchy, purple bumps); even skin cancer.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Her lungs were already weakened by an inflammatory disease, sarcoidosis.
    Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 28 Nov. 2020
  • Like any autoimmune condition, it can be triggered by stress, diet, other autoimmune diseases such as lupus or sarcoidosis for example, or hair care practices like coloring the hair or different chemical treatments, etc.
    Aley Arion, Essence, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The coroner’s report determined that Bubacz suffered an accidental overdose of oxycodone and alprazolam, with his advanced sarcoidosis a contributing factor.
    Andy Marso, kansascity, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Pinterest Jensen’s late husband tragically died at age 49 due to complications from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease that affects multiple organs in the body.
    Madison Rossi, PEOPLE.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Brummert, who has the inflammatory disorder sarcoidosis, was picking up her immune suppressant medications on March 18.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 13 May 2020
  • The Food and Drug Administration has approved Acthar for over a dozen conditions, including infantile spasms, a rare and dangerous seizure disease; rheumatoid arthritis; sarcoidosis; nephrotic syndrome; and systemic lupus erythematosus.
    Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2016

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