Literature

Curbside Consults Podcast

American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline on Sarcoidosis with Dr. Kevin Wilson

By Robert Smyth, MD, MSc

Published November 17, 2022

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine the American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) on Sarcoidosis. We are joined by one of its co-authors, Dr. Kevin Wilson, Chief of Guidelines and Documents at the American Thoracic Society and Professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine at Boston University.

00:06 – Intro
 00:50 – CPG methodology
 02:10 – Levels of evidence
 03:15 – Sarcoidosis introduction
 03:50 – Incidence, prevalence, and geography
 05:50 – Diagnostic approach
 12:40 – Extrapulmonary sarcoidosis
 14:30 – Laboratory screening
 16:30 – Cardiac sarcoidosis
 19:15 – General principles of treatment
 25:00 – Cradleboards

Articles discussed in this episode:

1. Crouser ED et al. Diagnosis and Detection of Sarcoidosis. An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline. AM J Resp Crit Care 2020.


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Kevin Wilson, MD, is Chief of Guidelines and Documents at the American Thoracic Society and Professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine at Boston University.
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Robert Smyth, MD, MSc, is a 2022–2023 NEJM Editorial Fellow. He is currently an Assistant Professor of computational biomedicine at the Boston University School of Medicine.