<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><bold>Introduction.</bold> Registries are necessary particularly for rare diseases. The REGIS registry was developed to improve scientific research in the field of interstitial lung diseases (ILDs).<bold>Material and Method.</bold> We analysed 144 patients with interstitial lung diseases enrolled during a three year period, selected the sarcoidosis cases and analysed the data with Excel 2007 Software.<bold>Results.</bold> A number of 26 sarcoidosis patients were included (18.06% out of the total), of which 46.15% were female, with an average age of 41.34±9.84 years; 23.08% were smokers. 88.46% pf patients had mediastinum pulmonary involvement: stage II in 17 patients, stage III in 5 patients and stage IV in one patient; only 3 patients had extra thoracic involvement. The medical investigations performed were: chest X-ray (96.15%), thoracic HRCT (96.15%) that identified hilar adenopathy (96%), nodules (68%), with peribronchovascular localization (44%); spirometry (96.15%) that revealed an average CV of 94.99±23.07% out of the predicted value, DLCO 78.41±19.39% out of the predicted value; bronchoalveolar lavage (38.46%); serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (73.08%) and pulmonary or lymph node biopsy (80.77%). The patients that needed treatment (46.15%) were administered oral corticosteroids (10 patients), acetylcysteine (1 patient) and pirfenidone (1 patient).<bold>Conclusions.</bold> The number of patients enrolled is low as a result of the voluntary reporting, especially in severe cases and with access to all investigations needed for diagnosing.</abstract>

Introduction. Registries are necessary particularly for rare diseases. The REGIS registry was developed to improve scientific research in the field of interstitial lung diseases (ILDs).Material and Method. We analysed 144 patients with interstitial lung diseases enrolled during a three year period, selected the sarcoidosis cases and analysed the data with Excel 2007 Software.Results. A number of 26 sarcoidosis patients were included (18.06% out of the total), of which 46.15% were female, with an average age of 41.34±9.84 years; 23.08% were smokers. 88.46% pf patients had mediastinum pulmonary involvement: stage II in 17 patients, stage III in 5 patients and stage IV in one patient; only 3 patients had extra thoracic involvement. The medical investigations performed were: chest X-ray (96.15%), thoracic HRCT (96.15%) that identified hilar adenopathy (96%), nodules (68%), with peribronchovascular localization (44%); spirometry (96.15%) that revealed an average CV of 94.99±23.07% out of the predicted value, DLCO 78.41±19.39% out of the predicted value; bronchoalveolar lavage (38.46%); serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (73.08%) and pulmonary or lymph node biopsy (80.77%). The patients that needed treatment (46.15%) were administered oral corticosteroids (10 patients), acetylcysteine (1 patient) and pirfenidone (1 patient).Conclusions. The number of patients enrolled is low as a result of the voluntary reporting, especially in severe cases and with access to all investigations needed for diagnosing.

The Results of a Three Year Analysis on Sarcoidosis Patients Registered in the Regis Electronic Registry

“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy

“Marius Nasta” Institute of Pneumology

University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara

Internal Medicine

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Introduction. Registries are necessary particularly for rare diseases. The REGIS registry was developed to improve scientific research in the field of...

The Results of a Three Year Analysis on Sarcoidosis Patients Registered in the Regis Electronic Registry

Published Online: Oct 16, 2018

Page range: 7 - 13

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/inmed-2018-0025

Keywords
REGIS registry, sarcoidosis, registry, rare diseases, interstitial lung diseases

© 2018 Teodor Salmen et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The Results of a Three Year Analysis on Sarcoidosis Patients Registered in the Regis Electronic Registry

Published Online: Oct 16, 2018

Page range: 7 - 13

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/inmed-2018-0025

KeywordsREGIS registry, sarcoidosis, registry, rare diseases, interstitial lung diseases

© 2018 Teodor Salmen et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
REGIS registry, sarcoidosis, registry, rare diseases, interstitial lung diseases