The Evaluation of the Relationship Between the Radiological Pulmonary Stage of Sarcoidosis and Carotid Artery Intima Media Thickness Measurement on the Sarcoidosis Patients with Lung Involvement

Objective: Sarcoidosis is a disease which courses with noncaseating granulomas, and within the pathophysiology of which abnormal immune response, inflammation and oxidative stress are held responsible. Lungs are the organs which it mostly involves and the lung involvement is radiologically divided into stages. The present research aims to evaluate the relationship between the lung involvement stage of sarcoidosis and carotid intima media thickness measurement which is one of the indicators of subclinical atherosclerosis.