New-onset sarcoidosis in a patient with long COVID

Guillermo Rodriguez-Nava; Vanessa El Kamari; Harvey Chang; Goar Egoryan; Hector F Bonilla

doi:10.1002/ccr3.9186

New-onset sarcoidosis in a patient with long COVID

Clin Case Rep. 2024 Aug 10;12(8):e9186. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.9186. eCollection 2024 Aug.

Authors

Guillermo Rodriguez-Nava¹, Vanessa El Kamari¹, Harvey Chang², Goar Egoryan³, Hector F Bonilla^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA.
² Department of Pathology Memorial Medical Center Modesto California USA.
³ Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA.
⁴ Stanford Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome Clinic Stanford Health Care Stanford California USA.
⁵ Stanford Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinic Stanford Health Care Stanford California USA.

Abstract

Long COVID, often following SARS-CoV-2 infection, may stem from sustained inflammation, overlapping with autoimmune diseases like sarcoidosis. Though specific treatments lack, this link could shape future diagnostic and therapeutic methods.

Keywords: COVID‐19; autoimmune; long COVID; sarcoidosis.

Publication types

Case Reports