Interleukin‐12 Receptor β1 Deficiency in a Patient with Abdominal Tuberculosis

Incidental unilateral tuberculous sacroiliitis detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT in a patient with abdominal tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis is a systemic disease which involves skeletal and articular system very rarely. Osteoarticular tuberculosis commonly occurs in the vertebral column and more rarely in the sacroiliac joints. In this study, we report a 44-years-old male patient with low-grade fever, malabsorption syndrome, abdominal and pelvic ascites and low-back pain, that underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT for identifying t...

Chronic appendicitis in a patient with 15 years abdominal pain

Khorasani B1, Gholizadeh Pasha A2 1. Assistant professor, Department of surgery, Faculty of medicine, Tehran University of rehabilitation 2. Assistant professor, Department of surgery, Faculty of medicine, Babol University of medical sciences Abstract Background: Acute appendicitis is a completely known disease but for many physicians chronic appendicitis is unknown and some of them do...

Abdominal tuberculosis in a non-immunosuppressed patient

Tuberculosis (TB) remains prevalent in developing countries and has recently re-emerged in the Western world. The spread of the disease is aided by poverty and overcrowding. However, the increased prevalence of HIV and multidrug-resistant TB has accelerated the gravity of this epidemic [1-5]. The true incidence of intra-abdominal TB is unknown as patients with concurrent pulmonary TB may be asy...

Unilateral frosted branch angiitis in a patient with abdominal tuberculosis.

PURPOSE To describe a case of unilateral frosted branch angiitis in a patient with abdominal tuberculosis. METHODS Observational case report. RESULTS A 17-year-old girl with chronic abdominal pain, cough, and amenorrhea for 5 months presented with complaints of sudden diminution of vision in both eyes for 1 day. Fundus examination of the right eye showed disk edema, dilated tortuous vessels...

Wernicke Encephalopathy in a Patient with Pulmonary and Abdominal Tuberculosis