Features of Tuberculosis Incidence and Clinical Forms for Sarcoidosis Patients

Introduction: The problems of high Tuberculosis (TB) Incidence is very burning in Latvia during several number of years (Incidence 2002–65,4/100 000). At the same time, there was level of TB resistant forms for patients with first time detected TB-31,5%. For the same period Sarcoidosis Incidence was 3,99/100 000 in Latvia. Though the etiology of Sarcoidosis is unknow we noted certain tendences in the development of pathological processes in cases of added Tuberculosis and Sarcoidosis. Methods: 2989 Sarcoidosis patients were reistrered in Latvia during the period of observations 1958–2002. Added TB was detected o…