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Sarcoidosis Diagnosis and Management

Edited by Mohammad Hosein Kalantar Motamedi, ISBN 978-953-307-414-6, Hard cover, 280 pages, Publisher: InTech, Chapters published October 21, 2011 under CC BY 3.0 license
DOI: 10.5772/909

Sarcoidosis is a type of inflammation that occurs in various locations of the body for no known reason. Normally, when foreign substances or organisms enter the body, the immune system will fight back by activating an immune response. Inflammation is a normal part of this immune response, but it should subside once the foreign antigen is gone. In sarcoidosis, the inflammation persists, and some of the immune cells form abnormal clumps of tissue called granulomas. The disease can affect any organ in the body, but it is most likely to occur in the lungs. It can also affect the skin, eyes, liver, or lymph nodes. Although the cause of sarcoidosis is not known, research suggests that it may be due to an extreme immune response or extreme sensitivity to certain substances. It also seems to have a genetic component as well, and tends to run in families. Sarcoidosis most commonly develops in people between 20 and 50 years of age. African Americans are somewhat more likely to develop sarcoidosis than Caucasians, and females are somewhat more likely to develop sarcoidosis than males. The symptoms of sarcoidosis depend on the organ involved. This book deals with the diagnosis and treatment of this mysterious disease of unknown etiology.

Prof. Mohammad Hosein Kalantar Motamedi

Trauma Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences

Dr. Mohammad Hosein Kalantar Motamedi is currently Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Trauma Research Center, BMSU, and attending faculty at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Azad University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. He received his American Diploma from Pennington High School,in Pennington, VA, USA (honor student). He received his Iranian Diploma from Hur High School in Tehran (honor student). His graduate education was at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA. He received his Doctorates of Dental Surgery (DDS Degree) from the University of Tehran. He completed his Postgraduate Residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery was at the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences from 1987-1991. He was valedictorian of the Annual National Board Exams in 1991. In 1995 he completed his fellowship at the University of Basel at Basel, Switzerland and obtained full Professorship in 2007. He has published 15 textbooks, 41 proceedings from international conferences, supervised 55 doctorate dissertations and has published 121 papers indexed in PUBMED and SCOPUS with an h-index of 12. At present he is also Editor-in-Chief of “Trauma Monthly” medical journal, Associate Editor of the Biomedical Central Journal “BMC Oral Health” , Associate Editor of "BMC Research Notes"(UK) , Associate Editor of “Dental Hypotheses” as well as Associate Editor of the “Open Journal of Stomatology”. He is also CE faculty of the “Dentistry Today Journal” (USA). He is one of the founders of the BMSU Trauma Research Center, and recently was granted 1st place prize at the Bagher Alum National Research Festival in 2010 and was awarded 2nd Place Prize at the 16th International Razi Research Festival on Medical Sciences that same year for his research. He was awarded "Most Published" by the Iranian Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons in 2009 and again in 2010. Following that, he was chosen for membership in the National Elite Foundation later that year and he is also listed in the Marquis Book “Who’s Who in the World” (1999-2012) and in “Who’s Who in Healthcare and Medicine” (2002-2012).

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    Sarcoidosis Diagnosis and Management

    Sarcoidosis is a type of inflammation that occurs in various locations of the body for no known reason. Normally, when foreign substances or organisms enter the body, the immune system will fight back by activating an immune response. Inflammation is a normal part of this immune response, but it should subside once the foreign antigen is gone. In sarcoidosis, the inflammation persists, and some of the immune cells form abnormal clumps of tissue called granulomas. The disease can affect any organ in the body, but it is most likely to occur in the lungs. It can also affect the skin, eyes, liver, or lymph nodes. Although the cause of sarcoidosis is not known, research suggests that it may be due to an extreme immune response or extreme sensitivity to certain substances. It also seems to have a genetic component as well, and tends to run in families. Sarcoidosis most commonly develops in people between 20 and 50 years of age. African Americans are somewhat more likely to develop sarcoidosis than Caucasians, and females are somewhat more likely to develop sarcoidosis than males. The symptoms of sarcoidosis depend on the organ involved. This book deals with the diagnosis and treatment of this mysterious disease of unknown etiology.

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