Causes of fatal outcomes in patients with sarcoidosis
Kostina, Z.I.; Brazhenko, N.A.; Gerasimova, E.V.; Godes, I.E.; Kol'nikova, O.V.; Loshchinskaia, N.N.
Problemy Tuberkuleza 5: 34-36
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0032-9533 PMID: 10565216 Document Number: 510637
There have been 21 (7.4) fatal cases among 282 patients with diffuse sarcoidosis of the lung and other organs in the past 30 years. The study of the causes of death indicated that 5 patients had progressive sarcoidosis of the lung and intrathoracic lymph nodes with progressive cardiopulmonary failure. Ten other dead persons had generalized generalized sarcoidosis; sarcoidosis of the central nervous system, liver, spleen, and kidney with marked progressive failure of these organs were of the greatest contribution to death. Concomitant diseases, such as pyoinfection, bronchiectasis with pulmonary hemorrhage, essential hypertension, diabetes, and bronchial cancer, are causes of death in 5 more patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis.