Miliary and Meningeal Tuberculosis

Disseminated tuberculosis complicated with tuberculous meningitis, miliary tuberculosis, and thoracal bone fracture while investigating a cervical lymphadenopathy. Tuberculosis: a hidden enemy?

Protection by BCG vaccine against tuberculosis: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

BACKGROUND Randomized trials assessing BCG vaccine protection against tuberculosis have widely varying results, for reasons that are not well understood. METHODS We examined associations of trial setting and design with BCG efficacy against pulmonary and miliary or meningeal tuberculosis by conducting a systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regression. RESULTS We identified 18 trials r...

Tubercles of the choroid.

In 1948 two of us (Illingworth and Wright) reviewed the literature conceming tubercles of the choroid and described the natural history of the disease as seen in children under our care. We pointed out that the favourable response of children with miliary or meningeal tuberculosis to streptomycin treatment had for the first time made possible the study of the natural history of choroidal tuberc...

Streptomycin in the treatment of miliary and meningeal tuberculosis based on a study of 30 cases.

Whether acute hematogenous dissemination of tubercle bacilli results in miliary tuberculosis, tuberculous meningitis, or a combination of the two, the ensuing diseases, though very closely related etiologically, are nevertheless distinct clinical entities, each with a different prognosis and therapy. The immediate mechanism, which is responsible for the infection assuming one or the other clini...

Demographic characteristics of patients with extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Germany.

The aim of the present study was to determine the demographics of patients with extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Germany. Data on 26,302 tuberculosis cases from a national survey carried out during the period 1996-2000 were analysed. The crude proportion of tuberculosis patients with extrapulmonary manifestations was 21.6%. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis was most likely among females, children aged ...