Miliary tuberculosis refers to the clinical disease resulting from the hematogenous dissemination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A tuberculous aneurysm of the aorta is exceedingly rare. Contiguous tuberculosis in the form of lymphadenitis is generally responsible for the aortic involvement. We report a case of tuberculous mycotic aneurysm in patient with miliary disease, not affected by a cellu...

Introduction: Spontaneous pneumothorax is a rare but serious complication of tuberculosis. Miliary tuberculosis (MT) severe form secondary to hematogenous spread Mycobacterium Objective: To report case MT complicated by pneumothorax. Methodology: This was 25-year-old patient, farmer, followed up at the Pneumo-phtisiology department CHU du Point G for whose condition improving after introduction...

BACKGROUND Miliary pulmonary nodules are commonly caused by various infections and cancers. We sought to identify the relative frequencies of various aetiologies and the clinical and radiographic predictors of miliary tuberculosis (TB) in patients with miliary pulmonary nodules. METHODS We performed a retrospective cohort study of patients who presented with micronodules occupying more than t...

CONTEXT Tuberculosis is an important public health issue. The Brazilian government reported 78,460 new cases in 1999. Miliary tuberculosis is a severe form of this disease. OBJECTIVE To report on an uncommon clinical presentation of miliary tuberculosis in a child. CASE REPORT A 5-year old boy presented in the emergency room with fatigue and weight loss. He had had Staphylococcus aureus pne...

The combination of miliary tuberculosis and tuberculous mycotic aneurysm has been described in the literature. We present the case of an 84-year-old man who was diagnosed with a mycotic aneurysm of the abdominal aorta and an adjacent soft tissue mass, after a 3- month history of fever. The patient underwent endovascular restoration of the aneurysm and was treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics...

Tuberculosis is a significant health problem in developing countries. Splenic tuberculosis usually occurs as a part of miliary tuberculosis, and ranks third after lung and liver involvement, respectively. Splenic involvement is more common in immunocompromised patients and is very rarely found in immunocompetent patients. Here we report a case of splenic tuberculosis in an immunocompetent patie...

BACKGROUND Disseminated mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) occurs mainly in immunocompromised hosts, which is associated with abnormal cellular immunity. CASE PRESENTATION A 26-year-old pregnant woman presented with fever and general weakness. Miliary lung nodules were noted on chest X-ray. Under the impression of miliary tuberculosis, anti-tuberculosis medication was administered. However, th...

In 1948 two of us (Illingworth and Wright) reviewed the literature conceming tubercles of the choroid and described the natural history of the disease as seen in children under our care. We pointed out that the favourable response of children with miliary or meningeal tuberculosis to streptomycin treatment had for the first time made possible the study of the natural history of choroidal tuberc...

BNORMAL peripheral blood pictures have been reported as occurring in some patients with miliary tuberculosis and all varieties of leukemia have been mistakenly diagnosed for this condition. Most of the cases were reported before sternal marrow puncture became a routine procedure and in many of the more recent cases this investigation was not performed. We report a case of miliary tuberculosis w...