Sarcoidosis and Pregnancy

¹ The Chest and Obstetrical and Gynecological Services of the Morrisania City Hospital, New York, New York.

Two instances are reported of colored women, aged 21 and 23 years respectively, who became pregnant and in whom sarcoidosis was discovered. The diagnosis of sarcoidosis was proved by biopsy of breast tissue in one instance and of an epitrochlear lymph node in the other. The pregnancies were allowed to go to term. One patient gave birth to a stillborn; the other to a healthy infant. The pregnancies did not affect the course of sarcoidosis nor did the sarcoidosis influence the pregnancies. Although no conclusions can be drawn on the basis of such a small series of cases, there is reason to believe that pregnancy and sarcoidosis may coexist without affecting each other.