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Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: mmirsae@uic.edu.
² Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Chicago, IL.
³ Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL.
⁴ Interstitial Lung Disease and Sarcoidosis Clinic, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.

Comment

Mehdi Mirsaeidi et al. Chest. 2015 Feb.

. 2015 Feb;147(2):e65-e66.

doi: 10.1378/chest.14-2603.

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: mmirsae@uic.edu.
² Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Chicago, IL.
³ Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL.
⁴ Interstitial Lung Disease and Sarcoidosis Clinic, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.

No abstract available

Comment on

Racial difference in sarcoidosis mortality in the United States.
Mirsaeidi M, Machado RF, Schraufnagel D, Sweiss NJ, Baughman RP. Mirsaeidi M, et al. Chest. 2015 Feb;147(2):438-449. doi: 10.1378/chest.14-1120. Chest. 2015. PMID: 25188873 Free PMC article.
Mortality vs case fatality in the assessment of sarcoidosis lethality.
Reich JM. Reich JM. Chest. 2015 Feb;147(2):e65. doi: 10.1378/chest.14-2444. Chest. 2015. PMID: 25644925 No abstract available.

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