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Diagnostic Challenges in Visceral Leishmaniasis in a 17‐Month‐Old Female: A Case Report
ABSTRACT Visceral leishmaniasis is an uncommon infectious disease. In this report, we present a case of VL in a 17‐month‐old child who presented with a fever and splenomegaly. After the patient failed to respond to several courses of antibiotics, a bone marrow aspirate confirmed the definitive diagnosis of VL, which was successfully treated with ...
Ahmed Sheikh Sobeh +4 more
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Hepatic tuberculosis in absence of disseminated abdominal tuberculosis
Liver involvement in tuberculosis in absence of miliary tuberculosis is rare. This study was performed to analyse the spectrum and response to treatment of hepatic tuberculosis in the absence of miliary abdominal tuberculosis.
Chirag S. Desai +6 more
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Time trend and clinical pattern of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Serbia, 1993-2007 [PDF]
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 ...
Bulajić Milica V. +2 more
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ABSTRACT Cardiac tuberculosis (TB) is a rare but important extrapulmonary form of TB that often presents diagnostic challenges due to nonspecific symptoms and its ability to mimic other cardiac conditions. We report the case of a 45‐year‐old woman with end‐stage renal disease secondary to granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) who presented with fever ...
Fariba Bayat +5 more
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Sarcoidosis With Pulmonary and Bone Marrow Involvement Following Chemotherapy in a Cancer Patient
Patients undergoing chemotherapy who develop new pulmonary lesions accompanied by fever present a diagnostic challenge. Recurrence of malignancy, infection and inflammatory conditions must all be considered. We present a unique case of multi‐organ sarcoidosis with bone marrow involvement in a patient with fallopian tube carcinoma undergoing ...
Ken Shirahase +7 more
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Diffuse pulmonary meningotheliomatosis (DPM) presenting as innumerable 1–2‐mm bilateral micronodules in an asymptomatic 44‐year‐old woman. Bronchoscopic biopsy was infeasible; VATS wedge resection confirmed meningothelial‐like nodules (vimentin+, EMA/AE1‐AE3/chromogranin/SMA−). Brain MRI showed no intracranial lesion.
Eitetsu Koh +3 more
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ABSTRACT Inflammation is the immune system's natural response to initial tuberculosis infection. Tuberculosis bacteria have gained adaptations to manipulate the inflammatory process, sometimes settling into latency and containment in granulomas, ensuring their survival.
Stacie Burke
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The role of Toll-like receptors (TLR) and MyD88 for immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection remains controversial. To address the impact of TLR-mediated pathogen recognition and MyD88-dependent signaling events on anti ...
Abel +53 more
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Microscopic Observation Drug Susceptibility Assay for Rapid Diagnosis of Lymph Node Tuberculosis and Detection of Drug Resistance. [PDF]
In this study, 132 patients with lymphadenopathy were investigated. Fifty-two (39.4%) were diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB). The microscopic observation drug susceptibility (MODS) assay provided rapid (13 days), accurate diagnosis (sensitivity, 65.4 ...
Cabrera, JL +12 more
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Background Miliary tuberculosis (TB) is an uncommon cause of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with a high mortality. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the clinical characteristics, predictors and outcome of patients with ARDS caused ...
Deng Wang +9 more
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