Reduced muscle strength, exercise intolerance and disabling symptoms in sarcoidosis.

Purpose Of Review: This review focuses on innovations in the field of assessment and treatment of muscle weakness and exercise intolerance in sarcoidosis and the association between these and fatigue, dyspnea and quality of life (QoL).

Recent Findings: Muscle strength and exercise intolerance are prevalent in patients with sarcoidosis. Exercise testing can be used to identify the presence of strength deficits and exercise intolerance.

Exercise capacity, muscle strength, and fatigue in sarcoidosis: a follow-up study.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine changes in the prevalence of exercise intolerance, reduced muscle strength, and fatigue and the changes in these parameters in individual patients during a 2-year follow-up study.

Methods: Ninety sarcoidosis patients (62 males and 28 females; mean age: 46.0 ± 10.

Is there an added value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in sarcoidosis patients?

Background: Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) with blood gas analysis may be helpful when there is a discrepancy between clinical findings and physiologic tests at rest. The aim of this study was to examine the added value of CPET compared to the measurement of the diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) in detecting impaired pulmonary gas exchange in sarcoidosis patients.

Methods: The clinical records of 160 (age = 41.

Is it possible to use the Structural Dimension Analysis of Motor Memory (SDA-M) to investigate representations of motor actions in stroke patients?

Objective: To determine the feasibility of the Structural Dimension Analysis of Motor Memory (SDA-M), a method derived from sports psychology, in establishing the mental representations of complex movements in patients after stroke.

Design: Case series of patients, with age-matched healthy controls.

Setting: A rehabilitation nursing home.