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The relationship between serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (SACE) and serum lysozyme (SLZ) was examined in 48 patients with sarcoidosis. The level of at least one enzyme was elevated in all 41 cases with active sarcoidosis; both enzymes were elevated in 24. SACE and SLZ were positively correlated. The elevation of SLZ or SLZ+SACE was most frequent in patients with pulmonary parenchymal involvement or extrathoracic manifestations. Both enzymes are suitable for disease monitoring, but in most cases the more specific SACE must be preferred as a measure of disease activity, although SLZ seems to be a little more sensitive. Blood for SACE analysis must arrive at the laboratory not later than 3 days after blood collection in order to avoid enzyme inactivation.
F K Rømer, and
G Ahlbom, and
J U Jensen
January 1983,
European journal of respiratory diseases,
F K Rømer, and
G Ahlbom, and
J U Jensen
January 1981,
Acta medica Scandinavica,
F K Rømer, and
G Ahlbom, and
J U Jensen
January 1984,
Archivio Monaldi per la tisiologia e le malattie dell'apparato respiratorio,
F K Rømer, and
G Ahlbom, and
J U Jensen
October 1993,
Revista clinica espanola,
F K Rømer, and
G Ahlbom, and
J U Jensen
February 1983,
Mayo Clinic proceedings,
F K Rømer, and
G Ahlbom, and
J U Jensen
February 1978,
La Nouvelle presse medicale,
F K Rømer, and
G Ahlbom, and
J U Jensen
January 1985,
Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology,
F K Rømer, and
G Ahlbom, and
J U Jensen
August 1985,
Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke,
F K Rømer, and
G Ahlbom, and
J U Jensen
January 1979,
Acta medica Scandinavica,
F K Rømer, and
G Ahlbom, and
J U Jensen
February 1981,
Nihon Kyobu Shikkan Gakkai zasshi,
