Massive Gastrointestinal Bleeding as a clinical manifestation of Miliary Tuberculosis
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چکیده
Tuberculosis is still a public health problem today and can have acute chronic manifestations challenging clinics for various medical specialties. Because it’s disease of multisystem potential, it often overlooked when outside the respiratory clinical context. As result, case report was carried out at Hospital de Clínicas Porto Alegre, in 2020, patient with voluminous gastrointestinal bleeding as severe manifestation Miliary Intestinal Tuberculosis. Due to potential severity undiagnosed untreated tuberculosis, high suspicion suggested all levels systems (whether or private) view early diagnosis, treatment prevention complications resulting from disease.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical & Biomedical Research
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2357-9730']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22491/2357-9730.124347