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Can sarcoidosis affect kidney?
If doctors think you may have sarcoidosis affecting other organs - such as the skin, heart or eyes - scans or examinations of these areas will usually be carried out.
Is polymyositis difficult to diagnose?
Often difficult to diagnose, because it is rare, because symptoms come on slowly, and because it can be mistaken for other diseases that cause muscle weakness (limb girdle muscular dystrophy).
What does Polymyositis produce?
Polymyositis is an inflammatory muscle disease that causes muscle weakness, typically in the muscles closest to the trunk of the body. It can lead to difficulties with climbing stairs, rising from a chair, or lifting objects. Other symptoms may include fatigue, weight loss, and muscle pain.
How serious is polymyositis?
very serious -- What is the clinical or statistical answer of the scientists who study this disease -- is it not too serious, troublesome, serious, dibilitating, or deadly. Give the best facts available on your page--
What organs are affected by sarcoidosis disease?
Organs that are affected by sarcoidosis disease include lungs, skin, eyes, musculoskeletal, nervous system, heart, reproductive system and other organs. This disease can affect any organ and this usually happens to more than one organ at a time.
Do tsunamis cause other storms?
No. A tsunami is not a storm and is not at all weather-related.
How is sarcoidosis diagnosed?
It can't be cured, but you take steroids for the inflammation.
Is there any other parts of the ecosystem related to Australia?
the answer is south Australia cause it has the same relation
What is the life expectancy for dercums disease?
Most cases of sarcoidosis do not affect life expectancy, so the life expectancy for a person with sarcoidosis should be determined by other factors, such as the person's sex and whether the person smokes. In two thirds of patients, sarcoidosis does not recur within ten years.
What are the inflammatory myopathies?
The causes of IM are not known. An autoimmune process is likely, as these conditions are often associated with other autoimmune diseases and because they respond to immunosuppressive medication.
What is sarcodosis?
It is a disease involving collections of inflammatory cells that can form as nodules called granulomas in multiple organs of the body. Most often located in lungs and lymph nodes. The average mortality rate is less than 5% in untreated cases.
What causes Numbness in finger tips and burning sensation also finger tips turn very white in color?
Without knowing more details could be many causes. Is this a chronic condition? Could be Raynaud's phenomenonhttp://www.answers.com/raynauds or combination of other related circulatory problems such as arthritis, polymyositis, carpal tunnel, drugs, exposure to cold, lupus etc. etc.
