SarcoidosisUK talked to sarcoidosis expert Prof Athol Wells at the Royal Brompton Hospital in October 2018. Prof Wells is a respiratory consultant and one of the world's leading experts on sarcoidosis. He leads the sarcoidosis clinic at the Royal Brompton, one of the UK's top centres managing sarcoidosis, particularly complex and progressive cases.
Prof Wells has published extensively on sarcoidosis over the past 2 decades. He is Vice-President of WASOG, the global sarcoidosis association. He sits on the advisory boards of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and Thorax. He also chairs various clinical expert groups at the British Thoracic Society, American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society and regularly speaks at these society's conferences.
In this video he explains what sarcoidosis is, what causes sarcoidosis and how it is diagnosed and treated.
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What is sarcoidosis? 00:02
What causes sarcoidosis?01:07
Diagnosis of sarcoidosis 03:53
Treatment of neurosarcoidosis 09:11
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