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Rosie Burton
… immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis, and malaria in pregnancy. The global roll-out of antiretroviral therapy has significantly improved survival for people living with HIV and reduced mother-to-child transmission, but HIV infection remains a leading cause of maternal mort…
Lindsay H. Cameron, Jeffrey R. Starke
…able age. Although treatment of tuberculosis disease during pregnancy is unquestioned, the treatment of the pregnant woman who has an asymptomatic tuberculosis infection is more controversial. As pregnancy seem to increase the risk of a woman progressing from infection to disease…
Shadi Rezai, Stephen LoBue, Daniel L. Adams, Yewande Oladipo, Ramses Posso, et al.
…toms of active TB can mimic normal physiological changes of pregnancy. We present a case report of a 26-year-old multiparous woman, G4P3003, at 38week gestation with a history of positive PPD who emigrated from Ghana 6 years ago. She came to the hospital with an initial complaint…
Rafael Laniado-Laborı́n
…ld be discontinued. First-line drugs (HREZ) are safe during pregnancy, and regimen doses and duration are the same as in non-pregnant individuals. Pyridoxine (50 mg, vitamin B6) should be added to the regimen to prevent neuropathy in the mother and seizures in the fetus. There is…
Fatma Tokgöz Akyıl, Kamil Janeczek
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and the most common cause of death from a single infectious agent. TB is caused by the droplet transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) bacilli, which sick people shed into the air. About a quar…
Amira El‐Messidi, Alan D. Cameron
A patient is referred by her primary care provider for consultation and transfer of care to your high-risk obstetric unit at a tertiary center. She is a 32-year-old primigravida at 15+3 weeks’ gestation with new abnormalities on chest X-ray and a positive sputum smear for acid-fa…
Alberto Matteelli, Luca Rossi, Sofia Lovatti, Anna Cristina Calçada Carvalho, Anita Sforza
…ice on their use considering TB burden, HIV status, age and pregnancy. The major problems related to TPT are duration of treatment, toxicity and tolerability, completion rates, and interactions between rifamycins and other drugs. To date, we are still far from reaching the 2022 m…
Debbie Latupeirissa
The global commitment to end HIV mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) by 2030 is a historic moment in public health. Despite significant advances in preventive techniques and the broad availability of antiretroviral medication/therapy (ART), a number of challenges remain in achiev…