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Uduak Okomo, Esin Nkereuwem, Hannah Blencowe, Aduragbemi Banke‐Thomas, Toyin Togun
An overlooked burden: Tuberculosis during pregnancy and postpartum continues to be under-recognised worldwide, despite bridging two major global health priorities: tuberculosis control and maternal and newborn survival. Recent estimates suggest that approximately 239,000 women co…
Nalini Bala Pandey
Pregnancy with Tuberculosis (TB) can adversely affect the health of the gravida, foetus, and neonate with a spectrum of short and long-term implications. Prevention, diagnosis, and management with a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) approach of TB in pregnancy can improve maternal an…
Alison J. Morton, Alexandra Roddy Mitchell, Richard E. Melville, Lisa Hui, Steven Y. C. Tong, et al.
Abstract Pregnancy may be associated with risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) in those infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( Mtb ). The perinatal period could provide opportunities for targeted screening and treatment. This study aims to synthesise published literature on M…
JM Joshi, Banumathy Srikant, Srikant Balasubramaniam, Trimurti Nadkarni
… deformity and neurological deficits. Its occurrence during pregnancy is uncommon, presenting diagnostic and therapeutic challenges due to the dual imperative of maternal neurological preservation and fetal safety. We report the case of a 25-year-old woman at 30 weeks of gestatio…
A. Priya, Patil N Ravi
Tuberculosis (TB) in pregnancy is a major health problem which possess a sustainable risk of morbidity to mother and fetus if not diagnosed and treated at correct time. The diagnosis in pregnancy is challenging, especially in the absence of lung involvement. It usually mimics oth…
Song Y, Wang Z, Hao Z, Li L, Lu J, et al.
… is a rare severe clinical syndrome. HLH manifesting during pregnancy has been paid much attention in recent years. Despite the specificity of pregnancy-related HLH, there has not been any consensus regarding its treatment. According to a previous study, corticosteroid/IVIG is th…
Irene Sinta Febriana, Sayugo Atikah, Sri Pudyastuti
…ory and also cardiovascular complication. Its occurrence in pregnancy is uncommon but is highly associated with higher mortality and morbidity for both maternal and fetal.Case Report: We report a case of 24 year old primigravida in National Respiratory Center Hospital, diagnosed …
Irene Sinta Febriana, Sayogo Atikah, Sri Pudyastuti
…ory and also cardiovascular complication. Its occurrence in pregnancy is uncommon but is highly associated with higher mortality and morbidity for both maternal and fetal. Case Report : We report a case of 24 year old primigravida in National Respiratory Center Hospital, diagnose…
P Seng, J R E Vintch
…duction Tuberculosis (TB) can be a challenging diagnosis in pregnancy as symptoms often overlap with normal pregnancy changes. Identifying risk factors can aid in timely diagnosis to initiate treatment and reduce mortality. Case summary A 40-year-old G2P0202 female from Mexico wi…
Jiane Queliza Felipe Francia, Mariel Salazar Nevado-Gammad
…atogenous spread of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb). Since pregnancy-related TB lacks the typical respiratory symptoms, clinicians might overlook the condition, complicating early diagnosis and treatment. This is a case of a 39-year-old multigravida, who presented with vaginal b…
Adriana Weinberg, Lisa Aaron, Grace Montepiedra, Timothy R. Sterling, Nahida Chaktoura, et al.
…, suggesting transient suppression of IFNg responses during pregnancy. Responses to the mitogen-positive QGIT kit control were absent in 60 (7%) women AP, 116 (16%) at L&D, but only 3 (0.4%) PP (P < 0.01), supporting the notion of transient immune suppression during pregna…
Alajaji NM, Sallout B, Baradwan S
…nosed with tuberculous spondylitis, or Pott disease, during pregnancy. CASE REPORT A 27-year-old female, in her first pregnancy and at 29 weeks of gestation, presented to the Emergency Department with worsening severe neck and back pain for the past 5 months. Post-gadolinium cont…
Kuupiel D, Tlou B, Bawontuo V, Mashamba-Thompson TP
…mentation. This study assessed the current accessibility of pregnancy-related point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests for maternal healthcare in rural primary healthcare (PHC) clinics in northern Ghana. Method We randomly selected 100 PHC clinics providing maternal healthcare from a…
Stroeken Y, Broekhuijsen K, Leyten E, Hermes W
… tube and endometrial pathology leading to subfertility and pregnancy loss. This case report describes a 34-year-old woman from Ivory Coast who was diagnosed with intrauterine tuberculosis after hysteroscopic evacuation of suspected retained placental tissue following an immature…
McLaughlin SE, Vora SB, Church EC, Spitters C, Thyer A, et al.
Objective To report 2 cases of adverse pregnancy outcomes due to delayed diagnosis of urogenital tuberculosis and propose a screening algorithm for patients from tuberculosis-endemic countries. Design Case report. Setting Academic medical center. Patients Two patients with delaye…
Srivastava S, Raj A, Agarwal R, Bhosale S, Marathe N
…is of the spine causing paraplegia in the 2 nd trimester of pregnancy is rare and poses significant management dilemmas. Pregnancy, a relatively immunocompromised state with high hormonal levels, may prompt rapid TB destruction of a vertebral body resulting in an acute/ profound …
Yadav A, Singh A, Aggarwal K
Acute paraplegia in pregnancy is uncommon but can result from pathology including Guillain-Barre syndrome, acute transverse myelitis, and spinal tuberculosis, also known as Pott's disease of the spine. India has a high incidence of tuberculosis (2.8 million cases annually) theref…
Afsana Rahman Maliha, Md Mostakim Billah, Md Mortuza Arafin, Ibrahim Khalil, Tahseen Tabassum
Spinal tuberculosis (Pott's disease) during pregnancy is rare and poses diagnostic challenges due to overlapping symptoms with pregnancy-related changes, potentially leading to severe neurological deficits if untreated. We report an 18-year-old primigravida at 32 weeks gestation …
Sujithra Devi R, Priya S, Kumari M, Ramkumar G, Jinkala S, et al.
…prevalence of tuberculosis. This is rarely diagnosed during pregnancy. The presentation can mimic other etiologies such as eclampsia or cerebral venous sinus thrombosis so the diagnosis can be challenging, particularly when presenting with seizures in pregnancy. Described here is…
Zhuang L, Wang XY, Sang Y, Xu J, He XL
Background Acute urinary retention (AUR) is rare during pregnancy. Case summary We report on three pregnant women with AUR between the 10 th and 18 th wk of gestation. Case 1 was first diagnosed as urinary tract infection and developed a urinary tract infection due to urinary ret…
Felix Bongomin, Phillip Ssekamatte, Ronald Olum, Diana Sitenda, Davis Kibirige, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Pregnancy modulates immune responses against() infection. Cytokines, including interleukin-2 (IL-2), play a crucial role incontainment, mainly by inducing the proliferation of T cells. However, the role of IL-2 in latent tuberculosis (TB) infection (LTBI) screenin…
Morton AJ, Roddy Mitchell A, Melville RE, Hui L, Tong SYC, et al.
Pregnancy may be associated with risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) in those infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The perinatal period could provide opportunities for targeted screening and treatment. This study aims to synthesise published literature on Mtb infectio…
Qi Nie, Yuan Liu, Fan Xiao, Yong Zhou, Tingting Fu, et al.
…extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (pre-XDR-TB) during pregnancy poses a formidable clinical challenge, particularly when complicated by tuberculous meningoencephalomyelitis (TBMEM), While the WHO operational handbook provides a general framework for drug-resistant TB, robus…
Waleed Razzaq Chaudhry, Sana Altaf, Cara Mohammed, Sofia Fuerte
Tuberculosis (TB) during pregnancy can cause certain deleterious effects to both the mother and the fetus, leading to significant morbidity and mortality. The risk of TB rises significantly during pregnancy due to dampening of the immune response in females and certain factors ye…
William M. Hague, Leonie Callaway, Jennifer Chambers, Lucy C. Chappell, Suzette Coat, et al.
… (less than 34 weeks gestation) intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) affects 0.1% of pregnant women in Australia and is associated with a 3-fold increased risk of stillbirth, fetal hypoxia and compromise, spontaneous preterm birth, as well as increased frequencies of pre-e…