Severe Refractory Pulmonary Sarcoidosis: Case Report and a Review of Newer Therapeutic Options

Abstract

Patients with sarcoidosis who fail to improve on corticosteroids pose a therapeutic challenge for clinicians, because there is a lack of consensus guidelines to manage these patients with other therapeutic options. Herein, we report one such patient with severe progressive sarcoidosis and review the alternative treatment options in patients with sarcoidosis who progress over corticosteroid therapy.

Keywords

• Antimetabolites
• biologicals
• corticosteroids
• immunomodulator therapy
• severe sarcoidosis