Luxury-Hotels.com lists the 10 most expensive U.S. luxury hotels for summer. Forget Park Avenue or Beverly Hills. The most expensive luxury hotel in the United States is a property you may not know: the Ranch at Rock Creek in Philipsburg, Mont. In fact, most of the top 10 wallet-busters, including two in California, are far from urban centers and are in the West, according to a survey released Thursday.
Overall, about 50% develop permanent pulmonary abnormalities, and 5 to 15% have progressive fibrosis of the lung parenchyma. Sarcoidosis of the lung is primarily an interstitial lung disease in which the inflammatory process involves the alveoli, small bronchi and small blood vessels. In acute and subacute cases, physical examination usually reveals dry crackles.
In the United States, pulmonary fibrosis is the leading cause of death in sarcoidosis, which carries a mortality rate of 1% to 5%. Other complications of pulmonary sarcoidosis include mycetomas, pleural effusions, bronchiectasis, pulmonary hypertension, endobronchial stenosis, and, rarely, bullous lung disease.ummary. 1  Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous disease, of unknown etiology, which most often affects the lungs, skin, and eyes. 2  In the United States, sarcoidosis is more prevalent and more severe in blacks than in whites. 3  The prevalence has been estimated at 35/100,000 in blacks and 11/100,000 in whites.