Though tuberculosis (TB) among pregnant women is not unusual in our country, documented cases of congenital tuberculosis are rare. Diagnosis is often difficult as signs and symptoms in a neonate are non- specific. Maternal history of tuberculosis is often missed, as many of them are asymptomatic. Here we present a neonate who was operated in view of intestinal obstruction which intra operativel...

BACKGROUND Cardiac tuberculosis is rare and usually manifests as tuberculous pericarditis. Involvement of other part of the heart is unusual and descriptions in the pediatric literature are confined to few case reports regarding mainly myocardial tuberculosis. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a case of pulmonary miliary tuberculosis associated with intracardiac left atrial tuberculoma in an immu...

Disseminated disease in children and pulmonary disease in adults constitute two major epidemiological and clinical forms of tuberculosis. Paradoxically, only a small fraction of infected individuals develop clinical tuberculosis, typically one form of the disease or the other. Mendelian and complex genetic predispositions to tuberculosis were reported recently in children and adults, respective...

Disseminated disease in children and pulmonary disease in adults constitute two major epidemiological and clinical forms of tuberculosis. Paradoxically, only a small fraction of infected individuals develop clinical tuberculosis, typically one form of the disease or the other. Mendelian and complex genetic predispositions to tuberculosis were reported recently in children and adults, respective...

Disseminated tuberculosis can present in various ways including prolonged fever / pyrexia of unknown origin, hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, meningitis and rarely extreme forms of hematological abnormalities such as pancytopenia and leukemoid reaction. We hereby report a case who presented with short history of fever, associated with vomiting and altered sensorium. He also had evidence of ...

Both disseminated cryptococcal infection and tuberculosis occur in hosts with impaired cell-mediated immunity, but there have been few reports about the concurrent infections in patients without human immunodeficiency virus infection. A 64-year-old man, who had been taking corticosteroids for interstitial pneumonia, was diagnosed with disseminated cryptococcal infection. While the patient was r...

We report the case of a 50-year-old female renal transplant patient who developed disseminated deposits initially diagnosed as metastatic malignancy of unknown primary. She declined a tissue diagnosis but subsequently developed recurrent sepsis and symptomatic unilateral pleural effusion. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was cultured from pleural fluid. Following introduction of anti-tuberculous medi...

We report the case of a 55-year-old man with chronic renal failure, and a history of prolonged fever and jaundice. Radiological studies revealed a multiloculated irregular liver abscess. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was isolated from the abscess on smear and culture of aspirated pus. Haematological studies revealed the presence of disseminated intravascular coagulation. A detailed search failed t...

The case report highlights the importance of maintaining a high index of suspicion for treatable causes of tubo-ovarian mass such as genitourinary tuberculosis despite the presence of a high blood level of CA-125, especially in countries with high background prevalence of tuberculosis. In a patient from a country with high background prevalence of both tuberculosis and human immune deficiency v...