Allergic granulomatous angiitis (Churg-Strauss syndrome) is a variant of systemic vasculitis characterized by pulmonary and systemic small vessel vasculitis, extra-vascular granulomas and eosinophilia. Clinical features include presence of asthma and/or allergic rhinitis with constitutional symptoms such as fever and weight loss. Multisystem involvement includes pulmonary infiltrations, m...

Background: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health concern and burden on developing countries economy. Pakistan ranks in top 10 of the world with high load TB big chunk this disease process extra pulmonary (EPTB). Among sites, bone joint very common yet under reported. Recent literature has found up to 35% all cases are TB. Purpose: We aim do an analysis frequency our institut...

BACKGROUND In India, tuberculosis is an endemic disease. Delay in diagnosis results in poor prognosis and fast spread of the disease. The objective of the present study is to look for an effective and acceptable diagnostic test, which may be helpful to initiate early treatment to improve prognosis and reduce spread. METHODS Three hundred and thirty patients with pleural, ascitic, meningeal an...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the false negative results of Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) smear microscopy. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Mycobacteriology Laboratory, Allama Iqbal Medical College (AIMC) and Jinnah Hospital, Lahore (JHL), Pakistan, from February 2014 to August 2016. METHODOLOGY A total of 3,951 (pulmonary 2,773 and extra-pulmonary 1,178) samples were collected f...

Mycoplasma pneumoniae (Mp) is an important cause of pneumonia in paediatric age, but also other organs or systems can be affected even without pulmonary involvement. The purpose of this study is to stress the unusual clinical features of Mp infection in children. A review of children affected with Mp infection with peculiar pulmonary and/or extra-pulmonary forms is reported. Diagnosis of Mp inf...

Extra-pulmonary diseases may mimic pulmonary lesions on chest radiography. We report a case of a silent rupture of an atherosclerotic thoracic aortic aneurysm with peripheral thrombus formation, that closely mimicked a complicated lung malignancy.

Objective: One important, though poorly described, manifestation of Extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is that splenic (TB). We aimed to identify the epidemiological, clinical and radiological characteristics TB in Southern Tunisia analyse its therapeutic evolutionary modalities. Materials methods: TB-patients (pulmonary and/or extra-pulmonary) with abnormal parenchymal lesion on radiologial e...