Hepatic involvement in sarcoidosis

  • Authors: Fomin VV1, Brovko MY.2, Kalashnikov MV3, Sholomova VI2,3, Rozina TP2,4, Akulkina LA2, Pershina AE4, Yanakayeva AS.2, Nekrasova TP5
  • Affiliations:
    1. I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine No.1
    2. I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), E.M. Tareev Clinic of Internal Diseases
    3. I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), Medical and Preventive Faculty, Department of Internal, Occupational Diseases and Rheumatology
    4. M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Base Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine
    5. I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), A.I. Strukov Department of Pathological Anatomy
  • Issue: Vol 91, No 4 (2019)
  • Pages: 4-12
  • Section: Editorial
  • URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0040-3660/article/view/33560
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.26442/00403660.2019.04.000179
  • ID: 33560

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Abstract

Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease of unknown etiology. Liver is frequently involved in the pathological process. Wide range of clinical manifestations can be seen: from asymptomatic lesion with normal liver function tests to cirrhosis with portal hypertension. Biopsy plays the key role in diagnosis of the hepatic sarcoidosis. It is essential for morphological diagnosis to exclude other causes of granulomatous liver disease, most often - primary biliary cholangitis. Nowadays there are no standard treatment protocols for patients with hepatic sarcoidosis.

About the authors

V V Fomin

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine No.1

д.м.н., проф., член-корр. РАН, зав. каф. факультетской терапии №1 лечебного факультета ФГАОУ ВО «Первый МГМУ им. И.М. Сеченова»

M Yu Brovko

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), E.M. Tareev Clinic of Internal Diseases

к.м.н., зав. отд-нием профпатологии и пульмонологии Клиники им. Е.М. Тареева, Университетская клиническая больница №3 ФГАОУ ВО «Первый МГМУ им. И.М. Сеченова»

M V Kalashnikov

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), Medical and Preventive Faculty, Department of Internal, Occupational Diseases and Rheumatology

клин. ординатор каф. внутренних, профессиональных болезней и ревматологии медико-профилактического факультета ФГАОУ ВО «Первый МГМУ им. И.М. Сеченова»

V I Sholomova

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), E.M. Tareev Clinic of Internal Diseases; I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), Medical and Preventive Faculty, Department of Internal, Occupational Diseases and Rheumatology

Email: vsholomova@mail.ru
врач-пульмонолог отд-ния пульмонологии и профпатологии Клиники им. Е.М. Тареева, Университетская клиническая больница №3 ФГАОУ ВО «Первый МГМУ им. И.М. Сеченова»; ассистент каф. внутренних, профессиональных болезней и ревматологии медико-профилактического факультета ФГАОУ ВО «Первый МГМУ им. И.М. Сеченова»

T P Rozina

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), E.M. Tareev Clinic of Internal Diseases; M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Base Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine

к.м.н., доц. каф. внутренних, профессиональных болезней и ревматологии медико-профилактического факультета ФГАОУ ВО «Первый МГМУ им. И.М. Сеченова»; доц. каф. внутренних болезней факультета фундаментальной медицины ФГБОУ ВО «МГУ им. М.В. Ломоносова»

L A Akulkina

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), E.M. Tareev Clinic of Internal Diseases

врач отд-ния пульмонологии и профпатологии Клиники им. Е.М. Тареева, Университетская клиническая больница №3 ФГАОУ ВО «Первый МГМУ им. И.М. Сеченова»

A E Pershina

M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Base Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine

студентка, каф. внутренних болезней факультета фундаментальной медицины ФГБОУ ВО «МГУ им. М.В. Ломоносова»

A Sh Yanakayeva

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), E.M. Tareev Clinic of Internal Diseases

врач-рентгенолог отд-ния лучевой диагностики Клиники им. Е.М. Тареева, Университетская клиническая больница №3 ФГАОУ ВО «Первый МГМУ им. И.М. Сеченова»

T P Nekrasova

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), A.I. Strukov Department of Pathological Anatomy

к.м.н., доц. каф. патологической анатомии им. А.И. Струкова ФГАОУ ВО «Первый МГМУ им. И.М. Сеченова»

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