Of 40 adults with miliary tuberculosis 24 had "overt" disease; in them miliary mottling was usually present on the chest radiograph, and tubercle bacilli were readily isolated from sputum, urine, or cerebrospinal fluid. In the remaining 16 patients the disease was termed "cryptic" because its usual clinical and radiographic features were absent. This cryptic type is as common as the overt type ...

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...

Abdominal tuberculosis (TB) is the sixth commonest extra-pulmonary TB form after lymphatic, genitourinary, bone and joint, miliary and meningeal tuberculosis. Perforation is a serious and uncommon complication of abdominal tuberculosis which can occur even during the treatment. A 30-year-old man was admitted with a three-day history of abdominal pain who had emergency surgery for multiple perfo...

Anti-tumor necrosis factor α (anti-TNFα) agents increase the risk of tuberculosis (TB), but cases are rarely fatal. This report concerns a patient who was undergoing treatment with infliximab and presented with acute respiratory distress syndrome due to miliary TB without a miliary shadow. The findings of a pathological autopsy revealed innumerable granulomas in the organs, and the miliary nodu...

The effects of malnutrition on outcomes in miliary tuberculosis (MTB) are not well described. The aim of the present study was to find predictors for the development of acute respiratory failure (ARF) and survival in MTB patients, focusing on parameters reflecting nutritional condition. Out of the patients from three hospitals who had microbiologically or histopathologically confirmed tuberculo...

Background Mycobacterium tuberculosis and HIV act synergistically to enhance and accelerate the development of tuberculosis and progression of HIV infection to AIDS. Hematogenous dissemination of M. tuberculosis leading to extrapulmonary TB, disseminated TB and miliary TB is greatly increased in HIV+ TB patients. We have compared the transcriptome of M. tuberculosis replicating in whole blood f...