Sarcoidosis and the kidney: not only the granulomatous interstitial nephritis.

Renal involvement in sarcoidosis displays a wide range of manifestations, and kidney dysfunction may involve all three mechanisms of renal failure. We report a new case of systemic sarcoidosis presenting as a severe renal failure due to hypercalcemia, sarcoidosis-related bilateral nephrolithiasis and granulomatous interstitial nephritis. A prostate adenocarcinoma was also diagnosed, but has to be regarded as an unrelated disease.

[Mouth ulcers induced by enteric-coated mycophenolate sodium (Myfortic].

Background: Mycophenolate sodium (Myfortic) is an enteric-coated formulation of the immunosuppressant therapy mycophenolic acid. We report a case of diffuse mouth ulceration in a patient treated with Myfortic presenting recurrence after another dose of drug.

Patients And Methods: We report the case of a 26-year-old female patient with systemic lupus erythematosus, initially treated with corticosteroids and mycophenolate mofetil, but which was stopped because of varicella-zoster dissemination and leucopoenia.