of patients with postprimary tuberculosis (1). However, cystic change associated with pulmonary tuberculosis has rarely been reported in radiologic and pathologic studies (2-4). According to these reports, cystic change developed before or during antituberculous chemotherapy in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis that initially presented with acute respiratory failure. Furthermore, these cysti...

INTRODUCTION Pulmonary pneumatoceles are thin-walled, air-filled cysts that develop within the lung. Most often, they occur as a sequela to acute pneumonia, commonly caused by Staphylococcus aureus, and are found more frequently in infants and young children. Adult tuberculous pulmonary pneumatoceles are seldom reported. CASE PRESENTATION We reported a case of pulmonary tuberculosis with pneu...

Background: Tuberculosis of the spine is common in Nigeria. It commonly causes neurological deficit especially when the lesions are higher up in the spine. Objective: To report a case of a young man who had C4 quadriplegia from tuberculous destruction of C3 to C5 vertebral bodies and their intervening discs, aretropharyngeal prevertebral abscess and associated segmental kyphosis. He had receive...

introduction: the aim of our study is evaluation of response rate of vad (vincristin, adriamycin and dexamethason) regimen as initial treatment in 40 new cases of multiple myeloma. this is the first systemic and classic report of vad regimen in iranian population. methods: all patients with at least stage 2 multiple myeloma or progressive disease after physical examination, para- clinical profi...

8oNicotinic acid hydrazide (isoniazid) has antituberculous activity both in vivo and in vitro (Fox, 1951). In man its principal toxic effect, peripheral neuritis (Biehl & Vilter, 1954; Oestreicher, Dressler & Middlebrook, 1954), can be prevented by the concurrent administration of vitamin B. (pyridoxine) (Biehl & Vilter, 1954; Biehl & Nimitz, 1954). It is of interest to discover whether the spe...

Objective: Mycobacteriosis is frequently diagnosed among HIV-infected patients. In Mozambique, where few patients are under antiretroviral therapy and the prevalence of tuberculosis is high, there is need for better characterization of mycobacteria at the species level, as well as for the identification of patterns of resistance to antituberculous drugs. Methods: We studied a sample of 503 HIV-...

Several drugs, including isonicotinyl hydrazide (isoniazid), diamino diphenyl sulphone (dapsone), hydralazine, and some sulphonamides, are metabolised by the liver enzyme acetyl transferase. There is individual variation in the rate at which acetylation occurs and two phenotypes, rapid and slow, are usually recognised, which show an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. The rapid phenotype in...

Tuberculous peritonitis is an uncommon disease in Hong Kong. We report a case of tuberculous peritonitis in a young male. The patient presented with persistent fever and intermittent cough for 1 month, but had no gastrointestinal symptoms. It was only through detection of slight abdominal ascites that subsequent abdominal paracentesis and laparoscopic biopsy confirmed the diagnosis. Appropriate...