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Pleural Tuberculosis

Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2021
Pleural tuberculosis (TB) is common and often follows a benign course but may result in serious long-term morbidity. Diagnosis is challenging because of the paucibacillary nature of the condition. Advances in Mycobacterium culture media and PCR-based techniques have increased the yield from mycobacteriologic tests.
Jane A, Shaw, Coenraad F N, Koegelenberg
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The diagnostic value and validation of IL-22 combined with sCD40L in tuberculosis pleural effusion [PDF]

BMC Immunology
Background There is substantial evidence indicating that cytokines play a role in the immune defense against tuberculosis. This study aims to evaluate the levels of various cytokines in pleural effusion to ditinguish between tuberculosis pleurisy and ...
Yuzhen Xu, Jing Wu, Qiuju Yao, Qianqian Liu, Huaxin Chen, Bingyan Zhang, Yuanyuan Liu, Sen Wang, Lingyun Shao, Wenhong Zhang, Qinfang Ou, Yan Gao   +11 more
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Pleural tuberculosis

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2016
Pleural effusions in tuberculosis are commonly seen in young adults as an immunological phenomenon occurring soon after primary infection. However, the epidemiology and demographics of tuberculous pleurisy are changing due to the impact of HIV co ...
B. Chakrabarti, P.D.O. Davies
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Pleural tuberculosis [PDF]

Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2019
A 35-year-old woman with previously untreated latent tuberculosis was admitted to the hospital for management of a right-sided empyema. After a prolonged hospitalization and several interventions, including chest tubes, bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage, and a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, positive acid-fast bacilli cultures on the ...
Ashley Liou, Carlos E. Rodriguez-Castro, Abel Rodriguez-Reyes, Riyam Zreik, Shirley Jones, Whitney Prince   +5 more
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Induction of CCL8/MCP-2 by mycobacteria through the activation of TLR2/PI3K/Akt signaling pathway. [PDF]

, 2012
Pleural tuberculosis (TB), together with lymphatic TB, constitutes more than half of all extrapulmonary cases. Pleural effusions (PEs) in TB are representative of lymphocytic PEs which are dominated by T cells.
Chen, Jianxia, Chen, Ling, Ernst, Joel, Fan, Lin, Ge, Baoxue, He, Xin, Hu, Haili, Kaufmann, Stefan HE, Liu, Haipeng, Liu, Zhonghua, Song, Peng, Weng, Dong, Xiao, Heping, Yang, Hong, Zheng, Ruijuan   +14 more
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Pleural tuberculosis: experiences from two centers in Brazil

Jornal de Pediatria, 2022
Objective: This study aimed to describe the clinical and laboratory findings of patients diagnosed with pleural tuberculosis at two hospitals in southern Brazil. Methods: Patients aged < 18 years were evaluated retrospectively.
Magda Lunelli, Isabel Cristina Schütz Ferreira, Muriel Bossle Sarmento, Valentina Coutinho Baldoto Gava Chakr, Gilberto Bueno Fischer   +4 more
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A Rare Case of Primary Calcific Pleural Tuberculosis – A Case Report [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2017
Tuberculosis is a highly prevalent disease in India. It has a myriad of presentations. Usually pleural tuberculosis occur secondary to pulmonary tuberculosis which can manifest as pleural effusion leading to pleural calcification.
G Sahana, Vishak Acharya, Santosh Rai, Nishanth Baliga   +3 more
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Is GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay reliable for the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis?

Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College, 2022
Introduction: Tuberculosis is the most common cause of infectious diseases related mortality globally. Tuberculous pleural effusion is a common presentation of extra pulmonary tuberculosis and a diagnostic challenge most of the time. The rapid diagnosis
Muhammad Mudassir Shafiq, Muhammad Nadeem, Gul Afshan Zaidi, Naveed Arshad, Muzammil Khan, Zainab Niazi   +5 more
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Assessment of the N-PCR assay in diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis: detection of M. tuberculosis in pleural fluid and sputum collected in tandem. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
The nonspecific clinical presentation and paucibacillary nature of tuberculous pleuritis remains a challenge for diagnosis. Diagnosis of tuberculous pleural effusion depends on the demonstration of the presence of tubercle bacilli in the sputum, pleural ...
Parameet Kumar, Manas K Sen, Devendra S Chauhan, Vishwa M Katoch, Sarman Singh, Hanumanthappa K Prasad   +5 more
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Parasternum pleural-cutaneous fistula in a severely immunosuppressed HIV-positive patient

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2010
Pleural tuberculosis occurs in 30% of patients with tuberculosis, and the percentage of patients with tuberculosis pleural effusions is comparable to human immunodeficiency virus HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals, although pleural tuberculosis is
André Gulinelli, MD, Diogo Oliveira Toledo, MD, Antonio Pereira Coelho-Neto, MD, Roseane Pôrto Medeiros, MD   +3 more
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