Asthma and pulmonary tuberculosis: misdiagnosis or coexistence

Takayasu arteritis and ulcerative colitis; coexistence or misdiagnosis?

Takayasu arteritis is a chronic inflammatory disease that primarily affects large arteries such as the aorta and its proximal branches. The association between Takayasu arteritis and ulcerative colitis is an extremely rare condition. Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease, clinical presentation is not specific and may mimic Crohn's disease, radiation colitis, ischemic colitis, a va...

Bronchial Asthma and Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Bronchial asthma and pulmonary tuberculosis In this series there were 91 cases of asthma and among them 15 patients (16.5 per cent) developed tuberculosis. Of these 15 cases, 13 had rr-ray examinations which showed unilateral disease in 6, and bilateral in 7. The lesions were mostly exudative; one had breakdown and another definite cavities. The sputum was positive in 9 cases, negative in 5, an...

BCG vaccine and pulmonary tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most important public health problems in the world and has been declared as a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is one of the first developed vaccines to prevent TB. Unfortunately, BCG vaccine has had a limited duration of protection and has shown controversial and variable levels of efficacy, especial...

Pulmonary Tuberculosis

The diagnosis and misdiagnosis of tuberculosis.

There are two worlds when it comes to the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). One world has only smear microscopy at its disposal. There may also be some radiological facilities, usually at the patients' expense. The other world has all modern techniques available, including culture, nucleic acid amplification, molecular diagnostics and sophisticated radiological techniques such as computed tomogra...