Central nervous system involvement in sarcoidosis

Central nervous system involvement in sarcoidosis

Envolvimento do sistema nervoso central na sarcoidose A 51-year-old female patient complained of mild frontotem-poral headache of insidious-onset for two years. One year ago, she had an episode of focal, tonic-clonic seizures (with right lower limb paresthesia) and was prescribed carbamazepine. Cerebrospinal fluid demonstrated increased protein levels and intrathecal im-munoglobulin (IgG) synth...

P 137: Central Nervous System Involvement in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a complex clinical syndrome which its components are less clearly recognized and includes heterogeneous demonstrations engaging both central and peripheral nervous system along with disabling effects. This disease is called "thousand faces" due to these heterogeneous demonstrations. This gap exists while 75% of adults and children with SLE may dea...

Rare Association of Severe Cryptococcal and Tuberculosis in Central Nervous System in a case of Sarcoidosis

  Sarcoidosis is a multisystem noncaseating granulomatous disease with a propensity for lung, eye, and skin which recently have been proposed that mycobacterium tuberculosis may contribute in its pathogenesis, and rarely involves central nervous system (CNS). Despite CD4+ lymphocytopenia, sarcoidosis by itself does not increase risk of opportunistic infections other than cryptococcosis.Nonethel...

Sarcoidosis with involvement of the nervous system.

Sarcoidosis of the Central Nervous System*

Since Boeck (1), in 1899, first described the skin lesions of sarcoidosis and Schaumann (2), in 1914, the systemic form of the disease, sarcoidosis has aroused much interest among clinicians and pathologists alike. The etiology is still obscure. The theory that it is an atypical form of tuberculosis has many defenders, although it has never been proved bacteriologically. That it occurs in a ben...