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Miliary Tuberculosis Presenting as Puerperial Fever [PDF]

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2011
Miliary tuberculosis as a cause of puerperial fever is extremely rare. It is a serious illness with nonspecific clinical manifestations and typical chest radiographic findings may not be seen until late in the course of the disease.
A. Agarwal
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Cutaneous Miliary Tuberculosis in a Chronic Kidney Disease Patient

Case Reports in Dermatology, 2014
A 79-year-old Thai woman with advanced renal failure, dyslipidemia and anemia of chronic disease was admitted to hospital with prolonged fever, productive cough and multiple discrete small pustules on her face, trunk and extremities.
Pudit Suraprasit, Narumol Silpa-archa, Daranporn Triwongwaranat   +2 more
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Recurrent pneumothorax developing during chemotherapy in a patient with miliary tuberculosis

Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 2007
Despite the fact that miliary tuberculosis is frequently seen, associated pneumothorax developing during antitubercular chemotherapy for miliary tuberculosis is rare.
Gupta Prem, Mehta Dinesh, Agarwal Dipti, Chand Trilok   +3 more
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Miliary tuberculosis presenting as bilateral superficial femoral artery mycotic aneurysm in an immunocompetent patient

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2019
Mycotic tuberculous aneurysm is extremely rare. The aorta is the main affected artery however; iliac and less commonly femoral arteries can also be affected. In 75% of the cases a contagious focus leads to infection through erosion of the vessel wall; on
F. Elzein, Nabeel Qatan, Abdullah M. Alghamdi, A. Albarrak, Kiran Kalam   +4 more
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High blood neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio associated with poor outcomes in miliary tuberculosis.

Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2018
Background It is difficult to predict the prognosis of miliary tuberculosis (TB). We hypothesized that blood neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is an indicator of inflammatory status to reflect independent prognostic significance in patients with miliary ...
Ye-Ji Han, Soo Jung Kim, Su Hwan Lee, Y. Sim, Y. Ryu, J. Chang, S. Shim, Yookyung Kim, J. Lee   +8 more
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ARDS from miliary tuberculosis successfully treated with ECMO

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2019
Tuberculosis is a rare cause of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and mortality rates are high in tuberculosis patients that need treatment with mechanical ventilation.
E. Vesteinsdottir, G. Myrdal, K. Sverrisson, S. Skarphedinsdottir, Ó. Gudlaugsson, S. Kárason   +5 more
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The Isambert disease: a very rare revelation of miliary tuberculosis

Revue Malienne d’Infectiologie et de Microbiologie, 2017
The objective of this study was to report a case of miliary tuberculosis revealed by a pharyngeal localization, and study this disease through a literature review.
Z Rachadi, M Idalene, L Arsalane, A Raji, N Tassi   +4 more
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Fatal acute miliary tuberculosis complicated by obstructive jaundice, acute pancreatitis, and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in a 57-year-old immunocompetent female: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports
Background Miliary tuberculosis occurs in 2% of all patients with tuberculosis when Mycobacterium tuberculosis circulates in the bloodstream, leading to various nonspecific features.
Ahed Assaf, Suleiman khaddour, Saja Karaja, William Borghol, Haya Almohammad, Mario Wassel, Kinan Alkeshk, Akram Shammat   +7 more
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Malignant lymphoma mimics miliary tuberculosis by diffuse micronodular radiographic findings

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2020
This case reports rare findings on computed tomography of a manifestation of malignant lymphoma, in which diffuse lung shadows appeared as miliary nodules distributed throughout the lungs bilaterally.
Kyoko Yagyu, Masaaki Kobayashi, Takahiro Ueda, Riki Uenishi, Yuko Nakatsuji, Haruhiko Matsushita   +5 more
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An unusual case of prostate tuberculosis: a case report

International Medical Case Reports Journal, 2015
Ahmad Jasem Abdulsalam,1 Mohammad Adel Abdulsalam2 1Faculty of Medicine, Health Science Center, Jabriya, Kuwait; 2Mubarak Al Kabeer Hospital, Jabriya, Kuwait Introduction: Tuberculosis of the prostate is a rare complication of miliary tuberculosis ...
Abdulsalam AJ, Abdulsalam MA
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