Tuberculosis is a high-incidence public health problem in Peru. In our context, seen commonly as pulmonary infection. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis gastric rare, both primary or secondary infection, with just few case reports published about these kinds of presentations. This report presents 44-year-old female patient weight loss, dyspepsia, and abdominal pain. Upper endoscopy reveals antral poly...

BACKGROUND Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a mediator with potent angiogenic, mitogenic, and vascular permeability-enhancing activities that are specific for endothelial cells. Intense angiogenesis has been found in active pulmonary tuberculosis lesions. OBJECTIVES To determine whether active pulmonary tuberculosis is associated with increased serum levels of VEGF compared with i...

Introduction: In HIV-associated tuberculosis cases, identifying nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) from clinical samples has become essential regarding patients’ treatment and prognosis. This study aims to determine the prevalence of different Mycobacteria species from immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients with suspected tuberculosis attending a tertiary care hospital in Kolkata, India....

Background: Pulmonary nodular excavation should firstly evoke tuberculosis or necrosis broncho-pulmonary tumor, particularly: epidermoid carcinoma. The case discussed here illustrated these difficulties in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Case Presentation: A 63-year-old woman was presented with a-three-year history of RA and a recent discovery of an excavated pulmonary nodule. Initi...

silicosis is considered to be among the occupational lung diseases and associated with sandblasting, mining, quarrying and tunneling. acute silicosis is usually progressive diseaseand despite treatment with corticosteroids it leads to cardio-respiratory failure and death. alveolar silicoproteinosis is one of it’s acute presentations due to exposure to silica dust and lungs filling with proteina...

INTRODUCTION To understand better the risk of tuberculosis transmission with increasing delay in tuberculosis treatment, we undertook a retrospective cohort study in Shenzhen, China. METHODS All pulmonary tuberculosis cases in the Shenzhen tuberculosis surveillance database from 1993-2010 were included. Sputum smear positivity and presence of pulmonary cavity were used as proxies for risk of ...

Introduction: Diagnosis of sputum negative pulmonary tuberculosis can be challenging and time consuming, with many patients being put on empirical anti-tuberculosis treatment. Bronchoscopy helps in early diagnosis such patients. Aims Objectives: To assess the diagnostic utility bronchial washing CBNAAT for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis smear suspected tuberculosis. Methodology: This case series wa...

OBJECTIVES The present study aimed to investigate the trends in changes in pulmonary function and the risk factors for pulmonary function deterioration in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis after completing treatment. INTRODUCTION Patients usually have pulmonary function abnormalities after completing treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis. The time course for changes in pulmonary function an...