The Indian journal of chest diseases & allied sciences
-
Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci · Apr 2013
Case ReportsAngiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in the treatment of sarcoidosis and association with ACE gene polymorphism: case series.
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) is used as a marker for sarcoid disease activity. We present an observational study of four African-American patients all of whom demonstrated improvement in their sarcoidosis after treatment with ACE inhibitors for hypertension.
-
Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci · Apr 2013
Case ReportsSilent rupture of aortic aneurysm mimicking lung malignancy.
Extra-pulmonary diseases may mimic pulmonary lesions on chest radiography. We report a case of a silent rupture of an atherosclerotic thoracic aortic aneurysm with peripheral thrombus formation, that closely mimicked a complicated lung malignancy.