KIDNEY DAMAGE IN SARCOIDOSIS

Sarcoidosis is a multi-systemic disease. The kidneys are less frequently affected by sarcoidosis than other organs. Nevertheless, physicians caring for patients with sarcoidosis need to be aware of the possibility of renal involvement, in order to diagnose this potentially life-threatening complication promptly and treat it effectively. In this manual, two chapters have been raised: the first chapter is a review of the bibliography on secondary renal involvement, mainly by sarcoidosic granuloma formation or secondarily by hypercalcemia, hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis. The second chapter deals with a retrospective study of patients with sarcoidosis nephropathy in our department, where renal biopsies were read by the same pathologist. This manual is intended for clinical assistants, residents and interns in (nephrology, internal medicine, pneumology, rheumatology...) as well as general practitioners.