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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Asymptomatic stage I sarcoidosis complicated by pulmonary tuberculosis: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Asymptomatic stage I sarcoidosis complicated by pulmonary tuberculosis a case report Georgios S Papaetis Angelos Pefanis Solon Solomon Ioannis Tsangarakis Dora Orphanidou and Apostolos Achimastos Address 3rd Department of Medicine University of Athens Medical School Sotiria General Hospital Athens Greece Email Georgios S Papaetis - gpapaetis@yahoo.gr Angelos Pefanis - apefan@med.uoa.gr Solon Solomon - phenix@acci.gr Ioannis Tsangarakis - john.tsagarakis@gmail.com Dora Orphanidou - cilki_33@yahoo.gr Apostolos Achimastos - apachim@med.uoa.gr Corresponding author Published 7 July 2008 Received 5 February 2008 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 226 doi 10.1186 1752-1947-2-226 Accepted 7 July 2008 This article is available from http www.jmedicalcasereports.cOm content 2 1 226 2008 Papaetis et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Introduction Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disorder characterized pathologically by the presence of non-caseating granulomas in involved tissues. Depressed cellular immunity predisposes patients to infections with certain intracellular organisms mostly fungi Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Nocardia species. As these infections are mainly insidious and difficult to differentiate from the underlying disease a possible misdiagnosis may lead to fatal complications for the patient. Case presentation We present a case of a 67-year-old woman with undiagnosed asymptomatic stage I sarcoidosis for at least 8 years before her admission and a 1-month history of fever exertional dyspnea and dry cough in whom pulmonary .
