Introduction: Polypliagia and morbid obesity appears in patients with sarcodosis may be signs of neurosarcoidosis in the medial hypothalmus where satiety center is located. It is estimated that about 1% of all patients with sarcoidosis may have sarcoidosis of the hxpothalamus. It is of utmost importance to diagnose and treat hxpothalamie sarcoidosis as early as possible, because lethality from neurosarcoidosis is active as high (10%) as the lethality from other localizations of sarcoidasis (5%).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: There is a relationship between sarcoidosis and endocrine diseases: hypothalamus, hypophysis, thyroid gland, parathyroid gland, adrenal gland and calcium metabolism disorder.
Discussion: Neurological disorders, obesity, secondary hypogonadism, and thirst as a result of diabetes insipidus, dominate the clinical picture of hypothalanmic sarcoidosis. Diseases of adenohypophysis present with gonadotropic insufficiency and prolactin increase.