Pulmonary sarcoidosis and autoimmune hemolytic anemia: possible common immune pathogenesis

A 49-year-old female presented with autoimmune hemolytic anemia and positive warm antibodies. She was diagnosed with chronic pulmonary sarcoidosis. The patient was given prednisolone after which she had complete remission of autoimmune hemolytic anemia and stabilization of her pulmonary status. A review will follow on association of sarcoidosis with autoimmune disease and its possible role in the development of such phenomenon

Gitelman's syndrome: a separate disorder or a variant of batter's syndrome

Gitelman's Syndrome [GS] is described as a separate patients with chronic hypokalemia and the entity of potassium [K] loosing nephropathy that has to differentiating features of these two K loosing be distinguished from Bartter's Syndrome [BS]. We nephropathies present a case report followed by a short review of patients with chronic hypokalemia and the differentiating features of these twok. loosing nephropathier