Sarcoidosis Presenting as Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Table 1

Author	Year	Patient	Symptoms	Duration of symptoms	Radiographic findings	Biopsy	Treatment and outcome
Sahn et. al. [11]	1974	26, female	Dyspnea, productive cough, and chest pain	1 month	Bilateral diffuse infiltrates without adenopathy	Open lung biopsy	Improvement with prednisone
Suyama et. al. [12]	1990	55, male	Dyspnea and fever	10 days	Diffuse small nodular opacity, with bilateral lymphadenopathy	Transbronchial lung biopsy	Improvement with prednisone
Sabbagh et al. [9]	2002	50, male	Dyspnea and productive cough	3 weeks	Extensive bilateral interstitial infiltrates	Transbronchial lung biopsy	Improvement with prednisone
Leiba et al. [13]	2004	41, female	Dyspnea	1 week	Bilateral reticulonodular opacities	Mediastinal lymph node biopsy	Improvement with prednisone
Chirakalwasan and Dallal [14]	2005	33, male	Acute respiratory distress syndrome	4 days	Bilateral pulmonary infiltrates	Transbronchial lung biopsy	Improvement with methylprednisolone
Shibata et al. [10]	2007	66, male	Leg rash, fever, and acute respiratory failure	n/a	Bilateral ground glass opacity	Skin biopsy	Improvement with steroids
Gupta et al. [7]	2011	40, male	Dyspnea, cough, fever, malaise, and weight loss	3 weeks	Bilateral patchy ground glass opacity with interlobular thickening and scattered nodules	Lung biopsy	Improvement with methylprednisolone
Gera et al. [6]	2014	30, male	Dyspnea, cough, and fever	20 days	Bilateral lymphadenopathy and confluent alveolar opacities with air bronchograms	Transbronchial biopsy	Improvement with prednisone
Arondi et al. [5]	2016	20, female	Dry cough, fatigue, and fever	1 week	Bilateral lymphadenopathy with diffuse ground glass opacities	Transbronchial biopsy	Improvement with methylprednisolone