Renal Impairment Due to Sarcoid Infiltration of the Kidney

Abstract

IT is well known that sarcoid can involve many organs. At autopsy it is not rare to find infiltration of the kidneys,¹ but this is usually quite minimal in degree. Clinical renal insufficiency may occur in patients with sarcoidosis, but it is usually due to hypercalcemia and nephrocalcinosis² and not to involvement of the kidneys by the sarcoid process itself. There have been, in addition, a few reports of patients with sarcoidosis and renal failure in whom the renal lesion proved to be the result of other, probably unrelated processes. This report concerns a patient with generalized sarcoidosis and clinical . . .