Miliary tuberculosis (TB) is a serious infection with various presentations that can perplex even the most experienced clinicians. To our knowledge, there is a lack of published reports that link psychiatric symptoms directly with miliary TB (either alone or co-occurring with other medical symptoms). Mental health workers may, therefore, not consider, and consequently miss, this important diagn...

Disseminated tuberculosis (TB) results from the lymphohematogenous spread of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Despite the availability of effective therapy, diagnosis is usually late and mortality remains high. We report a case of a 29-year-old male with a history of alcohol abuse that presented with altered mental status and was found to have a 'tree-in-bud' sign on chest radiography. Chest compute...

Aims: To describe an infant presenting with miliary tuberculosis cutaneous affectations and SARS-CoV-2 coinfection.
 Presentation of Case: 10 month old boy, incomplete vaccination. Low Socio-economic status. The parents indicated, that lesion began a single small, erythematous, non-pruritic, papule-type skin on the left side infralabial region, no other constitutional. During following thr...

Bone marrow necrosis (BMN) is a rare clinicopathologic entity caused by hypoxemia after failure of the microcirculation, which frequently manifests with bone pain, fever, and peripheral cytopenia. In most reported cases of BMN resulting from miliary tuberculosis (TB), the presence of marrow granulomas, pulmonary infiltrates and/or extrapulmonary involvement is common. We report a female patient...

to estimate the bacterio-epidemiological situation of childhood respiratory tuberculosis in iran, 2185 symptomatic patients of 0-14 years old were studied. among 110 bacteriologically confirmed cases, 60% were less than five years old and the number of females was slightly more than males. in 21 % of patients, the mantoux test was negative. none of the miliary cases had a history of bcg vaccina...

BACKGROUND Disseminated mycobacterial disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with HIV-infection. Nonspecific clinical presentation makes the diagnosis difficult and sometimes neglected. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study to compare the presentation of disseminated Mycobacterial tuberculosis (MTB) and non-tuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) disease in H...