Disseminated Tuberculosis Complicated by Pancytopenia

Pancytopenia in disseminated tuberculosis.

Ulcerative colitis complicated by disseminated intravascular coagulation.

We report a case of chronic ulcerative colitis complicated by clinical evidence of disseminated intravascular coagulation and pathological evidence of intestinal ischaemia secondary to venular and capillary fibrin thrombi. This may well represent an example of univisceral Shwartzman reaction occurring in a sensitized target organ.

Thyroid Storm Complicated by Bicytopenia and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

PATIENT Male, 23. FINAL DIAGNOSIS Thyroid storm. SYMPTOMS Delirium • diarrhea • fever • hypertension • hyperventilation • tachycardia • weight loss. MEDICATION -. CLINICAL PROCEDURE -. SPECIALTY Endocrinology and Metabolic. OBJECTIVE Unusual clinical course. BACKGROUND The clinical presentation of thyroid storm includes fever, tachycardia, hypertension, and neurological abnormalit...

The management of uncontrolled pulmonary tuberculosis complicated by endobronchial tuberculosis.

The significance of pancytopenia in miliary tuberculosis.

Patients with miliary tuberculosis accompanied by a pancytopenia rarely survive their disease. If the peripheral blood picture does recover it has been taken as an indication that there is no underlying haematological disease, and so re-examination of the bone marrow is not performed. A case is described where resolution of the pancytopenia occurred but a persisting haematological disease remai...