background: female genital tuberculosis is an important cause of secondary amenorrhea and infertility in developing countries where tuberculosis is endemic. objectives: we present three cases in which endometrial tuberculosis was a cause of secondary amenorrhea and infertility.rnpatients and methods: in a retrospective study from january 2007 to june 2010, we conducted 1010 laparoscopies for in...

conclusions anti-tuberculosis drugs-induced hepatotoxicity caused treatment interruption in 5.5% of the patients with tuberculosis. the majority of the patients with dih were above fifty, and 50% the cases occurred during the first two weeks after treatment onset. physicians must carefully and closely monitor such patients. background hepatotoxicity is one of the most frequent adverse events th...

introduction and objectives: tuberculosis (tb) still remains a major health concern both in developing and developed countries. the rate of the liver injury due to anti-tb drugs in developed countries has been reported up to 4%. the goal of this study is to assess the rate and risk factors for anti-tuberculosis drug-induced liver injury (dili). also, a model has been designed to predict dili in...

Background: Lower lung field tuberculosis is atypical presentation of pulmonary tuberculosis which often causes confusion in diagnosis. HIV/AIDS epidemic has considerably increased its incidence. This study was designed to identify the prevalence and different clinical conditions of lung tuberculosis in conjunction with its common clinical and radiological presentations and its treatment. Metho...

Introduction: To recognize the predisposing factors in tuberculosis as an endemic infection in Northeast province of Iran, this study was aimed to evaluate whether HumanT-lymphocyte type 1 (HTLV-I) as an immunosuppressive factor increases the risk of tuberculosis. Materials and Methods: A Case-control study was conducted in 278 tuberculosis patients from 2007 to 2010, in Mashhad, Iran. Tubercul...

tuberculosis is an important opportunistic disease among hiv- infected persons worldwide; from march 1999 to feburery 2001 we had seventeen patients with hiv-infection and tuberculosis. here we are presenting the clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment and outcome of them. all of them were male, 11 patients had pulmonary and 5 patients had extrapulmonary (pleural effusion 1, hepatic granu...

Four cases of polyarthritis concomitant with active tuberculosis is reported. In three patients pulmonary tuberculosis was confirmed by identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the sputum and bronchoalveolar lavage specimens, and in another one tuberculous lymphadenitis was confirmed by excisional biopsy. In all patients arthritis resolved by tuberculosis treatment and did not recur ...

Background: The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) has increased in recent years in both developed and developing countries. Skeletal tuberculosis occurs in approximately 1% of patients with tuberculosis. The present study aimed to evaluate the epidemiology of skeletal tuberculosis in Golestan province in northeastern Iran during 2005-2014.Methods: In the present retrospective study, the epidemiolo...