Gastric Sarcoidosis Presenting As Dyspepsia

The majority of cases of dyspepsia are functional, with a very rare cause of organic dyspepsia being gastric sarcoidosis. Although gastric sarcoidosis is the most common gastrointestinal manifestation of sarcoidosis, it is asymptomatic in >99% of cases. This is a case of a 48-year-old with known...

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Autores principales: Gala, Khushboo, Luckett, Robert T, Shah, Nihar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7105238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32257684
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7139
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description The majority of cases of dyspepsia are functional, with a very rare cause of organic dyspepsia being gastric sarcoidosis. Although gastric sarcoidosis is the most common gastrointestinal manifestation of sarcoidosis, it is asymptomatic in >99% of cases. This is a case of a 48-year-old with known pulmonary sarcoidosis who was diagnosed with gastric sarcoidosis after presenting with dyspepsia.
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spelling pubmed-71052382020-04-02 Gastric Sarcoidosis Presenting As Dyspepsia Gala, Khushboo Luckett, Robert T Shah, Nihar Cureus Gastroenterology The majority of cases of dyspepsia are functional, with a very rare cause of organic dyspepsia being gastric sarcoidosis. Although gastric sarcoidosis is the most common gastrointestinal manifestation of sarcoidosis, it is asymptomatic in >99% of cases. This is a case of a 48-year-old with known pulmonary sarcoidosis who was diagnosed with gastric sarcoidosis after presenting with dyspepsia. Cureus 2020-02-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7105238/ /pubmed/32257684 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7139 Text en Copyright © 2020, Gala et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Gastric Sarcoidosis Presenting As Dyspepsia
title_sort gastric sarcoidosis presenting as dyspepsia
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7105238/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7139
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