Tuberculous aortic aneurysm is a rare disease entity. The majority of affected patients succumb to perforation and exsanguination. The only chance for survival and cure is by resection and prolonged antituberculosis chemotherapy. Our case illustrates the high risk of rupture of tuberculous aortic aneurysms. Post-mortem examination revealed that the mechanism of aneurysm formation was by direct ...

Diagnostic confusion often exists between tuberculous meningitis and other meningoencephalitides. Newer diagnostic tests are unlikely to be available in many countries for some time. This study examines which clinical features and simple laboratory tests can differentiate tuberculous meningitis from other infections. Two hundred and thirty two children (110 tuberculous meningitis, 94 non-tuberc...

Tuberculin from the human and from the bovine type of tubercle bacilli inhibits the growth of cells from explants of bone marrow, spleen and testes of tuberculous guinea pigs, and is toxic for these cells, but has no effect on explants of the same tissues from non-tuberculous animals. "Tuberculin" from other acid-fast bacteria has no inhibitory or toxic action on explants of tissues from either...

s: Background: Differential diagnosis of ascites is a common clinical problem. Less expensive biochemical techniques are required to differentiate ascites with unknown etiology. Aim: To evaluate the diagnostic efficiency of ascitic fluid cholesterol, serum ascites albumin gradient (SAAG) and serum ascites cholesterol gradients (SACG) in differentiating cirrhotic, tuberculous and malignant ascit...

Tuberculosis is a global health problem whose morbidity and mortality is increasing, as one-third of the world population is estimated to be infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and eight million new active cases occur annually commonest being pulmonary tuberculosis and is often associated with effusion. Delay in diagnosis and treatment results in poor prognosis. Adenosine deaminase estimat...

BACKGROUND [corrected] The radiographic characteristics of tuberculous pneumonia in adults are similar to primary tuberculosis that occurs in childhood, and upper lobe cavitary tuberculosis is the hallmark of postprimary tuberculosis. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors associated with tuberculous pneumonia by making comparison with cavitary tuberculosis. METHODS The medi...

We studied interleukin 1 (IL-1) activity of pleural fluid macrophages and peripheral blood monocytes obtained from ten patients with tuberculous pleurisy and ten patients with malignant pleurisy, using purified protein derivative (PPD) as a stimulating agent. Tuberculous pleural fluid macrophages and peripheral blood monocytes tended to produce higher IL-1 activity than malignant pleural fluid ...

The objective of the present study was to investigate the presence of interleukin (IL)-27 in pleural effusions and to evaluate the diagnostic significance of pleural IL-27. The concentrations of IL-27 were determined in pleural fluids and sera from 68 patients with tuberculous pleural effusion, 63 malignant pleural effusion, 22 infectious pleural effusion, and 21 transudative pleural effusion. ...

In a recent paper on the ' Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis,' Sen and Chakrabortty^1) (1952) have proposed an inexpensive and simple method of diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis. According to this, it is possible to select a level of dilution of tuberculin such that at that level most of the tuberculous persons will react and a very negligible proportion of non-tuberculous persons also will s...

Tuberculous Spondylitisis a secondary infectious disease of the spine that often occurs, from some literature it is found almost half all scletal tuberculosis sufferers are Spondylitis. Until now, management Spondylitis still controversial due to high clinical variation The Medical Research Council United Kingdom (MRC, London) recommends using 6-month regimen isoniazid and rifampicin as standar...