Miliary tuberculosis (TB) is characterized by the spreading of Mycobacterium throughout body, leading to various clinical manifestations and potential complications. This case involves a 58-year-old male who presented with fever, night sweats, weight loss, respiratory symptoms. Diagnostic workup revealed characteristic radiological findings diffuse miliary nodules on CT scan X-ray chest. Labora...

Miliary tuberculosis (TB) is a severe form of disseminated TB that could be fatal without treatment. It remains significant health problem in endemic countries such as Indonesia. A-3-month-old child was admitted to the hospital with chief complain shortness breath, cough, and intermittent low-grade fever. Significant clinical findings were lack weight gain, previous contact confirmed cases TB, ...

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...

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of treatment of tuberculous meningitis in children who were admitted to the Children's Hospital, Sheffield, during 1954. Fifteen of these were admitted to the professorial unit, while five were under the care of Dr. T. Colver. The study is a direct continuation of earlier work (Illingworth and Lorber, 1951 ; Lorber, 1951; Lorber, 1954a, 1954b)...

Disseminated tuberculosis remains a diagnostic challenge because the presentations are nonspecific. In the current retrospective study we describe the clinical characteristics and outcome of disseminated tuberculosis. From January 1995 to December 2004, patients with culture-confirmed tuberculosis who fulfilled the criteria for disseminated tuberculosis were selected and their medical records r...

Yau Ma Tei Dermatology Clinic, 12/F, Yau Ma Tei Specialist Clinic, 143 Battery Street, Kowloon, Hong Kong A five-month-old boy presented with fever and multiple cutaneous papular eruptions. Skin biopsy revealed disseminated cutaneous tuberculosis (tuberculosis cutis disseminata). Tissue culture revealed Mycobacteria bovis (BCG). He was later diagnosed to have severe combined immunodeficiency. T...

Hepatic tuberculosis is usually associated with an active pulmonary or miliary tuberculosis, but rarely localizes as a liver tumor mass. The clinical presentation of isolated liver tuberculosis is so rare and atypical that it challenges the clinical acumen of the treating physician. Diagnostic modalities like ultrasound and computed tomography can miss the diagnosis. Ultimately, the diagnosis i...

Tuberculosis is a disease with protean manifestations. We present a case which was initially suspected as bronchogenic carcinoma with lymphangitic carcinomatosis, based on radiological appearance but later diagnosed as pulmonary tuberculoma with military tuberculosis and silicosis after thoracotomy and open lung biopsy. The patient was treated successfully with Antituberculosis Therapy (ATT). R...

We studied the hemodynamic behavior of the pulmonary circulation at rest and during exercise in six patients with MTB. As a group, in contrast to advanced fibrocaseous tuberculosis, these patients exhibited normal pulmonary hemodynamics at rest and during exercise. Only minor abnormalities in pulmonary vascular resistance at exercise (increased PAd-PWP gradient) were noted in two of the patient...

Acute respiratory failure is more common in miliary tuberculosis than in tuberculous bronchopneumonia and also has a worse prognosis. Chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure is frequent after both spinal tuberculosis and surgical treatments for pulmonary tuberculosis. It may develop insidiously or present acutely, for instance, during a chest infection. Hypoventilation appears during REM sleep ...