UNLABELLED We retrospectively reviewed 12 patients with spinal tuberculosis of the thoracic and lumbar spine who had radical débridement, anterior decompression, interbody arthrodesis with an anterior interbody titanium cage, and autologous bone grafts, combined with a standardized perioperative antituberculous regimen. Their mean age was 55.1 years and they were observed for a mean of 65.3 mon...

Tuberculous infection of the gastrointestinal tract results in a variety of histopathological lesions. Some patients develop intestinal strictures and present with subacute intestinal obstruction. The treatment is controversial and vary from a trial of antituberculous drugs to early surgery:the response to medical therapy is not clear. To examine this issue the present prospective therapeutic t...

Eosinophilic peritonitis is an uncommon clinical entity with diagnostic considerations separate from those of tuberculous peritonitis. We report a patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) with eosinophilic peritonitis resulting from tuberculous peritonitis. Acid-fast stain and mycobacterial culture of peritoneal dialysis effluent were both negative result. In the peritoneal d...

CHEST, VOL. 57, NO. 4, APRIL 1970 that the platelet count might fall further with iron therapy.11 This was not observed (Fig 1). Thrombocytopenia has apparently not been reported in this situation. In the seven previously reported patients with sideroblastic anemia associated with similar antituberculous drugs, the platelet counts were normal2’3 or not mentioned.1 In these patients, the anemia ...

Tuberculosis is still a common disease, even in some parts of developing countries. Although its major impact is pulmonary, the tuberculosis is actually a disseminated disease. An unusual form of renal involvement of tuberculosis is glomerulonephritis, as a part of systemic vasculitis, Henoch-Schoenlein Purpura (HSP). A 41-year-old man, being treated with antituberculous agents for pulmonary tu...

BACKGROUND Focal dystonia of acute onset is indicative of a structural lesion in the nervous system. Cerebellar lesions have rarely been associated with dystonia. CASE DESCRIPTION A 42-year-old woman was admitted to the neurology ward because of fever, confusion, and gait unsteadiness. She was diagnosed as having tuberculous meningitis, and, after a few days of antituberculous treatment, she ...

We have reviewed six patients with old tuberculosis of the knee treated by total replacement an average of 35 years after the primary infection. Three patients had no antituberculous prophylaxis and three had drugs for two to three weeks before and three weeks after the operation. One patient with a missed primary diagnosis had a relapse of the tuberculous arthritis 18 months after his arthropl...

The incidence of tuberculosis has progressively decreased in developed countries after the advent of antituberculous chemotherapy, but has recently been increasing again mainly due to migratory flows. Although common in the past and considered to be a prelethal event, laryngeal involvement has become a rarity. We report the case of a 52-year-old female smoker who complained of persistent aphoni...

AIM We report on the 30-day and one-year outcome of consecutive effusive pericarditis patients, including those with tuberculous pericarditis, over a six-year-period. METHODS AND RESULTS Patients with large pericardial effusions requiring pericardiocentesis were included in the study after having given written informed consent. Clinical and radiological evaluations were followed by echo-guide...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether initial isoniazid resistance is associated with death during the treatment of tuberculous meningitis. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING National Tuberculosis Surveillance System at the Centers for Disease Control in the United States. PARTICIPANTS Patients with a clinical diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis, reported to the National Tuberculosis Sur...