SARCOIDOSIS BENEFITED BY PREGNANCY

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Abstract
A review of many textbooks of medicine and of obstetrics revealed no mention of pregnancy in sarcoidosis. There have been, however, some reports of pregnancy in the remission or quiescent stage of the disease. The removal of the spleen in a patient in the fifth month of pregnancy complicated by purpura has been reported.1 The sarcoidosis was apparently not suspected until the spleen was sectioned. No other evidence of sarcoidosis was noted. The pregnancy terminated normally. In the same article, another similar case was briefly mentioned in the discussion. Dr. Warfield T. Longcope stated that he had not found any pregnant patient with active sarcoidosis in the large series of cases he had studied. He mentioned, however, that one of his patients did have two successful pregnancies after what appeared to be recovery from a rather extensive sarcoid involvement of the lungs.2 In a clinical review of 11