Paediatric Pulmonology and Allergology

2004 October, Vol. VII, No. 2 (2584-2588)

Change of respiratory function in patients with newly diagnosed sarcoidosis

Edvardas Danila, Laimute Jurgauskiene, Radvile Malickaite, Remigijus Nargela, Arturas Anziulis, Aleksandras Balbieris, Rolandas Zablockis, Marija Avizieniene, Regina Aleksoniene, Bronislovas Šatkauskas

Aim of the Stu­dy: to eva­lu­a­te in­di­ces of res­pi­ra­to­ry func­tion in new­ly diag­no­sed sar­coid pa­tients. Met­hods: cli­ni­cal symp­toms, cell dif­fe­ren­tials and di­stri­bu­tion of lymp­ho­cy­te sub­groups in BALF, chest X-ray, spi­ro­met­ric in­di­ces, lung vo­lu­mes, dif­fu­sion ca­pa­ci­ty and blo­od ga­ses ha­ve be­en in­ves­ti­ga­ted. Ma­te­rials: 154 sar­coid pa­tients we­re exa­mi­ned. Re­sults: most of our pa­tients had nor­mal res­pi­ra­to­ry func­tion in­di­ces. The­re was a mild im­pair­ment of res­pi­ra­to­ry func­tion in mi­no­ri­ty of our pa­tients. Conc­lu­sion: Our re­sults show that most of pa­tients with new­ly diag­no­sed sar­coi­do­sis had nor­mal res­pi­ra­to­ry func­tion.

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