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TO THE EDITORI read the article by Kim et al with great interest. This is a rare case of systemic sarcoidosis in a patient with chronic hepatitis C without treatment for neither sarcoidosis nor hepatitis C. In this case, spontaneous resolution of sarcoidosis was noted while hepatitis activities were aggravating. The authors suggest that this relationship mentioned above was not a fortuitous coincidence and these two diseases share a common pathogenesis due to the fact that interferon-induced immune activation is an important mechanism of viral replication suppression in chronic hepatitis C, hepatitis activities may be suppressed when chronic hepatitis C is combined with active sarcoidosis.
I read the article by Kim et al with great interest[1]. This is arare case of systemic sarcoidosis in a
