Pathology of digestive organs in group of patients with sarcoidosis: a vision of the pulmonary physician

Abstract

Methods of retrospective analysis analyzed the case histories of 85 patients that hospitalized in the pulmonology department of the Saratov City Clinical Hospital No.8 in 2015-2017 with sarcoidosis of the intrathoracic lymph nodes and lungs. Pathology of the gastrointestinal tract was detected in 28% of cases. The most frequent disease was chronic gastroduodenitis, in the most cases it was asymptomatic. The revealed pathology of the gastrointestinal tract was not associated with drug therapy of sarcoidosis of the intrathoracic lymph nodes and lungs. Perhaps the described combinations can be considered as a manifestation of the comorbidity of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and bronchopulmonary system.