Showing 1–25 of 40 documents
Sorted by hybrid relevance (keyword + semantic via RRF)
Rafael Laniado-Laborı́n
Although the underlying general principles of management of tuberculosis are the same for all cases, there are certain special situations in which the treatment regimen must be modified. Uremia and post-renal transplant are both risk factors for tuberculosis due to the underlying…
R. Harikrishna, Sanjula Jethwani, A T Rajeevan, A V Venugopalan
Introduction: The 2024 WHO Global Tuberculosis report labelled Tuberculosis as the leading cause of mortality amongst infectious diseases, surpassing COVID-19. Extrapulmonary manifestations account for almost 20% cases. Penile tuberculosis is a rare variant of genital tuberculosi…
Daniélle van Staden
…eatment. This chapter addresses two challenging conditions: tuberculosis of the female genital tract, which is the second most common manifestation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, and breast tuberculosis, a rare form of cutaneous tuberculosis. Both present difficulties regarding …
Shayam Kaushik, Savita Krishnamurthy, Neelam Grover, Rajni Kaushik
The study's goal is to examine the range of adolescents tuberculosis. Adolescence is characterised by a substantial increase in the incidence of tuberculosis, a known fact since the early 20th century. Most of the world's adolescents live in low-income and middle-income countries…
Richard Wismayer
Introduction: Tuberculosis remains a global public health concern. Abdominal tuberculosis is an atypical presentation and since it is extrapulmonary it may delay the diagnosis and treatment of this condition. The mortality associated with treated abdominal tuberculosis is 15% des…
Shivprasad Kasat, Mahendra Biradar, Ashish Deshmukh, Sunil Jadhav, Hafiz Deshmukh
…d reliability of CBNAAT in the diagnosis of extra pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) cases in comparison to AFB smear. Tuberculosis is still a major public health issue around the world. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is thought to infect one-third of the world's population. The two types…
Dhara Gosai, Jigar B. Gosai, Omprakash Shital Shukla
Background: Tuberculosis is the world's second leading cause of death from an infectious disease, being second only to AIDS. There is a lack of good data on the prevalence of all types of tuberculosis among children in India; most surveys have focused on pulmonary tuberculosis. T…
Archana Shrivastava
The aim of study is to evaluate early diagnosis of tuberculosis with simple and easy technique and to study in occurrence at various extra pulmonary sites. In our country, tuberculosis is the most common and serious infectious cause of death. Tuberculosis can affect any organ sys…
Murat Kılıç
Tuberculosis (TB) is the most common infectious disease that will cause death worldwide by 2022, apart from Covid-19. More than 10 million people are infected each year, and half of untreated cases can be fatal. TB usually affects the lungs and is transmitted through the air. Ext…
Mohammad Ibrarullah, Vinay K. Kapoor
Abstract Tuberculosis continues to be a global disease. Abdominal tuberculosis is a not uncommon form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis and includes involvement of the gastrointestinal tract, peritoneum, lymph nodes, and solid organs. Its clinical picture depends on the site of invo…
Rafael Laniado-Laborín
Symptoms and signs of active tuberculosis (TB) depend on its anatomical location. Pulmonary disease is the most common presentation of tuberculosis in the adult patient (more than 80% of the cases in the immunocompetent patient). Signs and symptoms can appear after just a few wee…
Wida Purbaningsih, Sadeli Masria, Yani Triyani, Maya Tejasari
Diagnosing extrapulmonary tuberculosis remains difficult because not all medical care facilities can do it as the microbiological examination of tissue materials requires invasive action and special equipment. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis diagnosis should be made by observing clin…
Dilvani Oliveira Santos, Paulo R. Z. Antas
Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious infectious disease that is a major cause of morbidity, being one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide, and the leading one from a single infectious agent. Also called “White Plague” in the past, TB is an airborne disease, propagated when multi…
Rafael Laniado-Laborín
Traditionally little attention has been paid to pediatric tuberculosis by clinicians, researchers, decision-makers, and even by national tuberculosis programs. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Report for the year 2018, 10 million people developed TB in 2017…
Onix Cantres-Fonseca
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the most pathogenic infectious organisms, usually known for causing cavitary lung infection. But this mycobacterium is also capable of causing masked involvement in any organ of the body. Its clinical manifestation can mimic other conditions a…
Şule Kızıltaş, Aylin Babalık
…er COVID-19 [1]. TB is caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis which is spread from one person to another through the air. M. tuberculosis is estimated to infect approximately one-fourth of the world’s population [2, 3]. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) …
Catherine Wilson
…use zoonotic disease. The main aim of eradication of bovine tuberculosis from countries where the disease is endemic has proved to be challenging. Mycobacteria can infect a very broad range of hosts. M. bovis, which is the main agent responsible for tuberculosis in domestic anima…
Marcos Henrique Teles Simão de Melo, Luana Bretas dos Santos Leonhardt, Jônatas Ferreira de Sá, Paulo Roberto Dias Bobenrieth
Pericardial tuberculosis is a rare and potentially fatal form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis that poses a diagnostic challenge, especially in endemic regions. This article reviews its clinical, epidemiological, and diagnostic aspects, based on literature published between 2012 an…
Pailin Kongmebhol, José Florencio F. Lapeña
Tuberculosis of the head and neck accounts for approximately one-third of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. From the surgical perspective, cervical lymph nodes, deep neck spaces, and salivary glands may be covered by head and neck surgery, while the ear, nose, and throat are tradition…
Fabiana Cristina Fulco Santos, André Luiz Alves do Nascimento, Laís Ariane de Siqueira Lira, Juliana Figueirêdo da Costa Lima, Rosana de Albuquerque Montenegro, et al.
Bone tuberculosis (TB) is one of the forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis that affects, above all, the spine, long bones and joints. The authors report a case of a 12-year-old child with a complaint of pain and deformity in the lower thoracic region that had lasted for two years.…
Rupak Chatterjee, Sumanta Sinha, Kumkum Sarkar, Debananda Gonjhu, Sekhar Pal, et al.
Tuberculosis has many mechanisms that may lead to hypercoagulable state and can lead to thromboembolic complications. It may be a potentially life-threatening condition. The physician's awarness of this disease condition is important to an early diagnostic suspicion and prompt tr…
Karolina D. Witt
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is an intracellular pathogen that has co-evolved with humans and developed various decoy strategies to survive in hostile environments by manipulating host immunity to its advantage. This occurs through selective antigen presentation at the cellul…
Charles Lukanga Kimera, Fredrick Sinyinza, Linda Ndesipandula Lukolo
…harge, abnormal vaginal bleeding or a lesion on the cervix, tuberculosis of the uterine cervix should be one the differential diagnoses. Being airborne, Tuberculosis (TB) commonly affects the lungs. However, TB can affect any organ of the body and when it is outside the lungs, it…
Andrea Migliorelli, Marianna Manuelli, Andrea Ciorba, Francesco Stomeo, Stefano Pelucchi, et al.
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be the foremost cause of mortality from infectious diseases on a global scale, with laryngeal tuberculosis (LTB) constituting a rare, yet clinically significant form of extrapulmonary TB. Despite accounting for less than 1% of total TB cases, LTB is…
Suman Kumar Jagaty, Swadip Mishra, C. Mohan Rao
Background: Extra-pulmonary tuberculosis is a milder form of the disease in terms of infectivity as compared to pulmonary tuberculosis. Diagnosis of Extra-pulmonary TB (EPTB) is a challenge. Aim: The study seeks to assess the sites of extra-pulmonary involvement during 2013-2017 …