Tuberculous peritonitis in pregnancy. Case report.

The incidence of tuberculosis in pregnancy is low; moreover, peritoneal tuberculosis (PT) in pregnancy is uncommon as infertility is the commonest sign in case Tuberculosis involves the genitals and/or peritoneum (Lee et al., 2005). The clinical manifestations of tuberculous peritonitis progress insidiously. Fever, chills, weight loss and abdominal pain are common complaints. Though, ascites is present in almost all patients, bacteriologic examination of the ascitic fluid is not always diagnostic. Acid-fast smears are rarely positive in tuberculous peritonitis, and conventional cultures yield the pathogen in only 25% of cases (Sakorafas et al., 2009). We report here a case of tuberculous peritonitis in pregnancy presenting with ascites.