The Medical clinics of North America
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Community-acquired pneumonia remains a common illness with substantial morbidity and mortality. Current management challenges focus on identifying the likely etiologic pathogens based on an assessment of host risk factors, while attempting to make a specific etiologic diagnosis, which is often not possible. ⋯ It is important to understand the expected response to effective therapy, and to identify and manage clinical failure at the earliest possible time point. Prevention is focused on smoking cessation and vaccination against pneumococcus and influenza.
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Sarcoidosis is a multisystem, granulomatous disease. In this article, the various clinical manifestations, approach to, and management of, pulmonary and extrapulmonary sarcoidosis are reviewed.