Validation of the Sarcoidosis Diagnostic Score (SDS) in a Multicontinental Study.
Florence JenyVioletta VucinicYing ZhouDominique ValeyreParthasarathi BhattacharyyaAlexandra N BickettMarc A JudsonOgugua Ndili ObiJacques E DenisDeepak TalwarIrina StrambuElyse E LowerRobert P BaughmanPublished in: Annals of the American Thoracic Society (2022)
This multicontinental study confirms that both SDS Clinical and SDS Biopsy have good to excellent performance to discriminate sarcoidosis from alternative diagnoses. Differences in the AUC were seen for "high tuberculosis prevalence" versus "low tuberculosis prevalence" centers and males versus females. Both SDSs had good discriminatory function for infectious granulomatous disease but failed in case of non-infectious granulomatous disease such as berylliosis.