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(Chest. 1971;59:188-190.)
© 1971 American College of Chest Physicians

Rapid Intravenous Calcium Infusion Test in Sarcoidosis

Joseph W. Sokolowski Jr. MC, USN1 and Robert C. Elliott MC, USN2

1 Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia
2 Head, Pulmonary Disease Branch, Naval Hospital, St. Albans, New York

Previous reports have described a distinctive pattern of phosphorus excretion (after rapid calcium infusion) in sarcoidosis. The author performed similar studies on eight patients with sarcoidosis and five patients with other pathologic processes. A "sarcoid pattern" was noted in only one patient with sarcoidosis and in two patients with tuberculosis. It can be stated that the rapid calcium infusion test is not a diagnostic aid in sarcoidosis.






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