[Sarcoidosis: retrospective analysis of 14 cases].
OBJECTIVE
A clinical evaluation of Sarcoidosis in our environment.


METHODS
A retrospective and descriptive analysis of 14 cases encountered between 1988 and 1990. SITE. In-hospital patients studied within a catchment area of 200,000 people.


METHODS
13 women and 1 man ranging in age from 24 to 63 (X = 37. DS 13). All of them were confirmed histologically.


RESULTS
Six patients received V.O. steroid treatment. 28.5% started as Nodose Erythema, 28.5% as Respiratory Syndrome, 21% as general Toxic Syndrome. 35% were without clinical symptoms; 25% Arthralgias, 21% cough. Thoracic X-ray with bilateral hiliar adenopathies 78%; interstitial pattern 28.5%. Analytically, Monocitosis was presented in 43%; Anaemia, Hypergammaglobulinemia, rise in Transaminases in 35%; a normal ACE in 50% and raised ACE in 35%. There was a positive pulmonary Cammagraphy (Galio) in 50%. Diagnostic confirmation was made by means of transbronchial B (28%), Mediastinoscopy (14%), open Pulmonary B. (14%), Hepatic B (14%), osseous B. and Daniels (14%) and peripheric adenopathy B (14%). Pulmonary circulatory capacity (DLCO-KCO) was decreased in 3 cases. Statistic 1, 71%; 11, 14%, 111, 14%.


CONCLUSIONS
Sarcoidosis is not so rare in our environment as had been thought. Factors such as a Northerly geographical situation, low temperatures, the long duration of the disease, improvement in diagnostic methods and a high level of awareness have all influenced this high number of cases found in an area of 200,000 inhabitants. The disease's clinical behaviour in our environment does not differ from that described by other spanish and foreign authors.
Villarroya Lequericaonandia
M E
ME
Hospital General Río Carrión, Palencia.
Fernández Jorge
M A
MA
Ibáñez Gómez
J
J
Arizcun Morate
A
A
Alonso Mallo
E
E
Pérez Sicilia
M
M
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy
Sarcoidosis: análisis retrospectivo de 14 casos.