Clinical and radiological characteristics of parenchymal and meningeal spinal tuberculosis
BMC Infectious DiseasesBackground 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.
Qin Shan +7 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 +2 more
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A Rare Presentation of Invasive Tuberculosis of the Central Nervous System in an Immunocompetent Patient in a Nonendemic Country [PDF]
Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2018 We herein report a rare case of a 25-year-old immunocompetent male patient with disseminated tuberculosis of central nervous system (CNS), first presenting as multiple cerebral lesions with no meningeal involvement. Subsequent diagnostic workup disclosed
Rita Martins +3 more
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Medicine, 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.
Cláudia Elizabeth Volpe‐Chaves +10 more
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Gatifloxacin Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics–based Optimal Dosing for Pulmonary and Meningeal Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2018 Background Gatifloxacin is used for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The optimal dose is unknown. Methods We performed a 28-day gatifloxacin hollow-fiber system model of tuberculosis (HFS-TB) study in order to identify the ...
Devyani Deshpande +12 more
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Large-scale genomic analysis shows association between homoplastic genetic variation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis genes and meningeal or pulmonary tuberculosis [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2018 Meningitis is the most severe manifestation of tuberculosis. It is largely unknown why some people develop pulmonary TB (PTB) and others TB meningitis (TBM); we examined if the genetic background of infecting M. tuberculosis strains may be relevant.
Carolien Ruesen +9 more
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Time trend and clinical pattern of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Serbia, 1993-2007 [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2012 Background/Aim. Increased incidence of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (XPTB) is reported worldwide. Serbia is a country in socio-economic transition period with lowmiddle HIV prevalence and intermediate-to-low tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate, 100 ...
Pešut Dragica P. +2 more
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Miliary and Meningeal Tuberculosis in an Immunocompetent Adult [PDF]
TP99. TP099 CURIOUS MYCOBACTERIAL CASES AND MIMICKERS, 2021 Rishitha Yelisetti, Mourad Ismail
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A Polymorphism in Toll‐Interleukin 1 Receptor Domain Containing Adaptor Protein Is Associated with Susceptibility to Meningeal Tuberculosis [PDF]
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2006 Thomas R. Hawn +14 more
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