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Abdolhoseinpour H, Abolghasemi S, Jangholi E, Naghi Tehrani KH
Background Central nervous system tuberculoma is the most severe manifestation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis with high mortality. Cavernous sinus tuberculoma (CST) is a very rare central nervous system tuberculoma with few cases reported in the literature. Case description A 57-…
Takahashi AAR, Bassaneze T, Longo KS, Batista JG, Waisberg J
Rationale Perianal tuberculosis is extremely rare without previous or active pulmonary infection. Ulcerative skin lesion is a rare presentation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in the oral, perianal, or genital mucosa and the adjacent skin. Case report A 71-year-old woman complaine…
Donovan J, Figaji A, Imran D, Phu NH, Rohlwink U, et al.
…ther evidence for their use is required. Optimal management regimens of neurological complications (eg, hydrocephalus and paradoxical reactions) and of hyponatraemia, which frequently accompanies tuberculous meningitis, remain to be elucidated. Advances in the field of tuberculou…
Maitre T, Bonnet M, Calmy A, Raberahona M, Rakotoarivelo RA, et al.
Background Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is the most lethal and disabling form of tuberculosis (TB), particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Current anti-TB treatment is poorly effective since TBM mortality reaches 40% in HIV-negative patients and up to 70% in HIV-co-infected patients…
Cukic V, Ustamujic A
Introduction Health Introduction: The two types of tuberculosis (TB) are: pulmonary TB (PTB) and extrapulmonary TB (EPTB). Objective to represent the frequency of ETPB of all localization , ratio between EPTB and PTB and demographic characteristics of EPTB in FBiH in the period o…
Chiang SS, Graham SM, Schaaf HS, Marais BJ, Sant'Anna CC, et al.
BACKGROUND: These clinical standards aim to provide guidance for diagnosis, treatment, and management of drug-susceptible TB in children and adolescents. METHODS: Fifty-two global experts in paediatric TB participated in a Delphi consensus process. After eight rounds of revisions…
Avkan-Oğuz V, Öner-Eyüboğlu F, Turunç T, Ersöz G, Tezer-Tekçe Y, et al.
Objectives Tuberculosis risk in solid-organ transplant recipients is more than the general population, although tuberculosis incidence has been reported to decrease 5% in the last decade in Turkey. In Turkey, solid-organ transplants started in 1975; however, routine pretransplant…
Chen L, Zhang J
BACKGROUND Thoracolumbar spinal tuberculosis is a severe form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis requiring precise management strategies. Traditionally, patients undergo a 2-4 week course of preoperative quadruple chemotherapy before surgery. However, recent clinical practices have b…
Robledo-Gil T, Harada K, Ikuta I, Villanueva M
BACKGROUND Paradoxical reactions to tuberculosis (TB) are clinical or radiological worsening of prior tuberculous lesions or the development of new lesions upon treatment with appropriate anti-tuberculosis therapy (ATT). This phenomenon has been described in both HIV-seropositive…
Gao Y, Su J, Ma Y, Sun Y, Cui J, et al.
Background The treatment regimen for tuberculous meningitis (TBM) remains unclear and requires optimization. There are some reports on successful adjunct intrathecal dexamethasone and isoniazid (IDI) treatment strategies for TBM, however, there is equivocal evidence on their effi…
Ouskri S, Zaoui Y, Boualaoui I, Ibrahimi A, El Sayegh H, et al.
Introduction and importance Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health issue, especially in developing countries where its incidence is rising due to factors like overcrowding and immunosuppression. Among extrapulmonary TB forms, abdominal TB is common, while retroperi…
Sharma SK, Sharma R, Singh BK, Upadhyay V, Mani I, et al.
Background & objectives The burden of non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) disease is increasing worldwide. The disease shares clinicoradiological features with tuberculosis (TB), Nocardia and several fungal diseases, and its diagnosis is frequently delayed. The present study was …
Yadav S
Tuberculosis at extrapulmonary sites is relatively uncommon. A case of isolated involvement of the salivary gland is even rare and primary rifampicin mono-resistant tuberculosis of the parotid gland is rarest of rare with no such report ever documented in the medical literature. …
Antonangelo L, Faria CS, Sales RK
Background : Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's leading cause of death from infectious disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) recognized 6.3 million new TB cases in 2017, 16% corresponding to extrapulmonary forms; pleural tuberculosis (PT) is the most common extrapulmonary fo…
Panjasawatwong N, Wattanakul T, Hoglund RM, Bang ND, Pouplin T, et al.
Optimal dosing of children with tuberculous meningitis (TBM) remains uncertain and is currently based on the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in adults. This study aimed to investigate the population pharmacokinetics of isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol in Viet…
Dolmus T, Ensarioglu K, Sahin Ozdemirel T, Kurus M, Ozkara S
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that may involve all systems, with the respiratory system being the most commonly affected. Tuberculosis of the chest wall and its structures is rare, in which malignancy and abscess may be counted among possible differential diagnoses. In th…
Bhandari B, Snyder SA, Goldman JD
BACKGROUND Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) occurs in up to one-fifth of all cases of TB, with abdominal TB accounting for 5% of all cases. It is an uncommon diagnosis in the Western world, where it is primarily identified in immigrant and immunocompromised populations. CASE REPO…
García Atienza MLH, Gil Campesino H, García-Martínez de Artola D, García Machado F, Alcoba Flórez J
Erythema induratum of Bazin (EIB) is a rare manifestation of cutaneous tuberculosis, typically associated with active tuberculosis infections. We present the case of a 75-year-old immunocompetent Spanish woman who developed nodular lesions on her lower limbs. Initial differential…
Vargas JC, Bezerra PN, Sequeira M, Oliveira GH, Pegolo CE, et al.
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis associated with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is extremely rare. A likely association between ITP and pulmonary and lymph node tuberculosis was reported in a 29-year-old male patient. His platelet count decreased to 4,000/µL. Chest tomography revealed …
Chen B, Bao Y, Chen J, Zhang Y, Wen Q, et al.
Soft tissue tuberculosis is a rare extrapulmonary form of tuberculosis with limited experience in diagnosis and treatment. Soft tissue tuberculosis is an extrapulmonary infection with atypical clinical symptoms that can be easily misdiagnosed. In this article, we report a case of…
Robertson KR, Oladeji B, Jiang H, Kumwenda J, Supparatpinyo K, et al.
… World Health Organization-recommended antiretroviral (ART) regimens. We investigated the impact of tuberculosis (TB) on neurological and neuropsychological outcomes. Methods Standardized neurological and neuropsychological examinations were administered every 24 weeks. Generaliz…
Oshima S, Sakuragi M, Morita H, Oka Y, Tabu H, et al.
Hemodialysis is a well-known risk factor for severe infection by putting patients under an immunocompromised state. Such patients are prone to opportunistic pathogen and present with atypical manifestations during infection. Tuberculous meningitis is a central nervous system infe…
Giri Movva, Saki Kawaguchi, Edward Butt, Keita Hibako, Tetsuya Hoshi, et al.
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, was the most prevalent infectious disease globally before the COVID-19 pandemic, with pulmonary TB being the primary presentation. Extrapulmonary TB (EXPTB) can also occur, with gastrointestinal TB (GITB) bein…
Drobish I, Ramchandar N, Raabe V, Pong A, Bradley J, et al.
…d 1%-2% of all pediatric tuberculosis infections. Treatment regimens and durations typically mirror recommendations for other types of extrapulmonary MTB, but there are significant variations in practice, with some experts suggesting a treatment course of 12 months or longer. Met…
Yadav S
Tuberculosis is commonly seen in endemic countries. Cases of primary drug resistance are rare. There is a paucity of data related to primary drug resistance at extrapulmonary sites. Herein, a case of primary isoniazid mono-resistant extrapulmonary tuberculosis of the multiple rig…