Health-related quality of life in adult survivors of childhood sarcoidosis.

AIM: To describe health-related quality of life (hrQOL) in adult subjects who had sarcoidosis in childhood.

METHODS: Forty-six children (24 boys), all ethnic Danes
RESULTS: At follow-up, 30/34 patients had recovered from sarcoidosis and 4/34 patients had persistent chronic active disease with impaired lung function. SF-36 scores in all domains were similar to scores in the reference population; the four patients with chronic active disease had lower scores in three domains. In the entire series, physical component summary (PCS) score and mental component summary (MCS) score was similar to the reference population.

CONCLUSION: Childhood sarcoidosis has a favourable prognosis concerning health status in adulthood. The majority of adult subjects had a health status that was indistinguishable from a healthy reference population.