RENAL MANIFESTATIONS OF SARCOIDOSIS - REP ORT OF 3 CASES

We report three patients with different renal manifestations of sarcoi dosis. These cases serve to illustrate different forms of clinical pre sentation and evolution in this clinicopathological association. One c ase presented with granulomatous intersticial nephritis and two cases with secondary glomerulonephritis (focal and segmental glomerulosclero sis and membranous glomerulonephritis). Treatment with steroids improv ed the renal function in one case and resulted in a decrease or remiss ion in proteinuria in the other two. These cases provide further evide nce that secondary nephropathy associated with sarcoidosis should be t reated with steroids. We review the possible relationship between glom erulonephritis and sarcoidosis and speculate on the etiopathogenesis t hat might link the two.