BACKGROUND Cardiac tuberculosis is rare and usually manifests as tuberculous pericarditis. Involvement of other part of the heart is unusual and descriptions in the pediatric literature are confined to few case reports regarding mainly myocardial tuberculosis. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a case of pulmonary miliary tuberculosis associated with intracardiac left atrial tuberculoma in an immu...

Madhyastha SP, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-219276 Description A previously healthy 20-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a history of one episode of generalised tonic– clonic seizure. No history of fever or constitutional symptoms. At admission, she was haemodynamically stable and Glasgow Coma Scale was 8, with no focal neurological deficits. For the wo...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS This study aims at evaluating the clinical and radiological outcome of tuberculous meningitis (TBM) patients with pulmonary miliary tuberculosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS Diagnosis of TBM was based on clinical, CT scan or MRI and CSF criteria, and that of miliary tuberculosis on chest radiograph. Detailed clinical evaluation was done in all. Severity of meningitis was graded i...

We studied eight patients with miliary tuberculosis (TB). In all instances, tuberculomatous lesions were demonstrated in the aspirated bone marrow. We conclude that the bone marrow aspiration has great value in diagnosing miliary TB because it provides sufficient material to permit examination of serial sections as needed to confirm the diagnosis. The bone marrow aspiration also is safer than t...

Skin manifestations of tuberculous infection (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) are represented by miliary tuberculosis of the skin, tuberculous chancre, scrofuloderma, tuberculosis verrucosa cutis, periorificial tuberculosis, and lupus vulgaris (LV). Among this group, LV is the most common skin condition, diagnosed in 10% of tuberculotic patients. The authors report herein a case of squamous cell ca...

Total number of abortions: 30,699.  60% of abortions were criminal and the re- mainder were due to:  (a)Cervical incompetence  (b) hypothyr oidism (c) Listeriosis (d) Toxoplasmosis (e) Luteal phase deficiency (f) Placental deficiency Mg) Rh and ABO incompatibility and unknown etiology.  Therapeutic abortions were also performed in several cases due to:  (a) Miliary tube...

BACKGROUND An increase in tuberculosis (TB) incidence has been associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIMS To describe the clinical characteristics and treatment outcome of patients with HIV and miliary TB treated with short-course intermittent chemotherapy in the absence of access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). SETTINGS AND DESIGN Prospective study of HIV inf...

Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is one of the main causes of chronic liver disease worldwide. In the last 5 years, treatment for HCV infection has experienced a marked development. In 2014, the use of ledipasvir/sofosbuvir with or without concomitant weight-based ribavirin was approved with a very significant increase in the sustained virological response. However, new side effects ha...

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