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Clinical and radiological characteristics of parenchymal and meningeal spinal tuberculosis [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Spinal tuberculosis is a rare condition that can result in significant neurological impairments. It is typically classified into two main types based on the anatomical involvement: parenchymal and meningeal.
Qiu-Lan Shan, Le Zhang, Xu-Wen Fu, Min Qi, Jia-Lu Wei, Wei Gan, Xiang Li, Ling-Jun Shen   +7 more
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Phenotype of Peripheral NK Cells in Latent, Active, and Meningeal Tuberculosis. [PDF]

J Immunol Res, 2021
The mechanisms underlying the immunopathology of tuberculous meningitis (TBM), the most severe clinical form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB), are not understood.
Choreño-Parra JA, Jiménez-Álvarez LA, Maldonado-Díaz ED, Cárdenas G, Fernández-Lopez LA, Soto-Hernandez JL, Muñoz-Torrico M, Ramírez-Martínez G, Cruz-Lagunas A, Vega-López A, Domínguez-López ML, Sánchez-Garibay C, Guadarrama-Ortíz P, Giono S, Jiménez-Zamudio LA, Khader SA, García-Latorre EA, Salinas-Lara C, Zúñiga J.   +18 more
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Evaluation of Ceftriaxone Plus Avibactam in an Intracellular Hollow Fiber Model of Tuberculosis: Implications for the Treatment of Disseminated and Meningeal Tuberculosis in Children. [PDF]

Pediatr Infect Dis J, 2020
Background: Ceftazidime-avibactam is an effective agent for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) but requires frequent administration because of a short half-life. Due to a longer half-life, ceftriaxone could allow intermittent dosing.
Srivastava S, van Zyl J, Cirrincione K, Martin K, Thomas T, Deshpande D, Alffenaar JW, Seddon JA, Gumbo T.   +8 more
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Vertebral tuberculosis as a paradoxical reaction to the treatment of pulmonary and meningeal tuberculosis in an immunocompetent patient: A case report. [PDF]

Medicine (Baltimore), 2020
Introduction: Paradoxical reaction in tuberculosis (TB) is defined as the reappearance of general symptoms, aggravation of pre-existing diseases, or appearance of new lesions despite adequate anti-TB therapy.
Volpe-Chaves CE, Lacerda MLGG, Castilho SB, Fonseca SSO, Saad BAA, Franciscato C, Tibana TK, Nunes TF, Venturini J, Oliveira SMDVL, Paniago AMM.   +10 more
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Neuro-meningeal tuberculosis: A pediatric case report and review of the literature [PDF]

Radiology Case Reports
Pediatric neuro-meningeal tuberculosis leads to high rates of mortality and morbidity. Prompt diagnosis and initiation of treatment are challenging; imaging findings play a key role in establishing the presumptive diagnosis.
Chaimae Lahlou, MD, Chaymae Faraj, MD, Sara Essetti, MD, Ihssan Hadj Hsain, MD, Nazik Allali, PhD, Siham EL Haddad, PhD, Latifa Chat, PhD   +6 more
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Intradural Spinal Tuberculosis in the Absence of Vertebral or Meningeal Tuberculosis: A Case Report

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2006
We present a patient with spinal intradural tuberculosis in the absence of both vertebral and meningeal tuberculosis. Diagnosis was made based on intra-operative findings and was confirmed by histopathology.
CK Sree Harsha, AP Shetty, S Rajasekaran
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Pulmonary and meningeal tuberculosis patterns in children at King Abdul-Aziz university hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: A retrospective study [PDF]

Global Journal of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Research, 2020
Background: Paediatric Tuberculosis (TB) is a significant health problem worldwide, with the World Health Organization (WHO) reporting almost 550,000 children infected with TB yearly.
Fida Nadia M, Farouq Mohammed, Daghistani Razan, A. I. Hassanin Abeer, Alamawi Duha   +4 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Epidemio-clinical aspects and neuro-meningeal tuberculosis prognosis in Batna [PDF]

International Journal of Science and Research Archive
Neuromeningeal tuberculosis is rare, affecting around 1-2% of all tuberculosis cases and 5% of extra pulmonary tuberculosis cases. Our aim is to describe the epidemio-clinical, prognostic and evolutionary aspects of neuromeningeal tuberculosis. Materials
Nora Righi, Amel Benbouza, R. Djebaïli, Melissa Doumandji, Bruno Lina   +4 more
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Paradoxical reaction to the treatment of tuberculosis uncovering previously silent meningeal disease [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2002
The development of paradoxical clinical worsening following initiation of tuberculosis treatment may complicate the clinical course of both HIV-infected and uninfected patients.
Walter A. Eyer-Silva, Jorge Francisco C. Pinto, Juçara Árabe, Carlos Alberto Morais-de-Sá   +3 more
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Cerebro-Meningeal Tuberculosis in HIV-Negative Adults [PDF]

Journal of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, 2018
Background: Tuberculosis remains a public health problem worldwide. Neurological localization is the most severe manifestation of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis characterized by a high mortality rate and a high rate of sequelae among survivors; its ...
Wahiba Guenifi, Abdelkader Gasmi, Houda Boukhrissa, Mounira Rais, Abderahmen Hachani, Amel Ouyahia, S Mechakra, Abdelmadjid Lacheheb   +7 more
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