We studied interleukin 1 (IL-1) activity of pleural fluid macrophages and peripheral blood monocytes obtained from ten patients with tuberculous pleurisy and ten patients with malignant pleurisy, using purified protein derivative (PPD) as a stimulating agent. Tuberculous pleural fluid macrophages and peripheral blood monocytes tended to produce higher IL-1 activity than malignant pleural fluid ...

The objective of the present study was to investigate the presence of interleukin (IL)-27 in pleural effusions and to evaluate the diagnostic significance of pleural IL-27. The concentrations of IL-27 were determined in pleural fluids and sera from 68 patients with tuberculous pleural effusion, 63 malignant pleural effusion, 22 infectious pleural effusion, and 21 transudative pleural effusion. ...

In a recent paper on the ' Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis,' Sen and Chakrabortty^1) (1952) have proposed an inexpensive and simple method of diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis. According to this, it is possible to select a level of dilution of tuberculin such that at that level most of the tuberculous persons will react and a very negligible proportion of non-tuberculous persons also will s...

Tuberculous Spondylitisis a secondary infectious disease of the spine that often occurs, from some literature it is found almost half all scletal tuberculosis sufferers are Spondylitis. Until now, management Spondylitis still controversial due to high clinical variation The Medical Research Council United Kingdom (MRC, London) recommends using 6-month regimen isoniazid and rifampicin as standar...

We report a rare case of oculomotor nerve palsy and choroidal tuberculous granuloma associated with tuberculous meningoencephalitis. A 15-year-old male visited our hospital for an acute drop of the left eyelid and diplopia. He has been on anti-tuberculous drugs (isoniazid, rifampin) for 1 year for his tuberculous encephalitis. A neurological examination revealed a conscious clear patient with i...

The mycotic tuberculous aneurysm of the Abdominal Aorta is an extremely rare disease. An aortic a life-threatening condition caused by infection. Tuberculous aneurysms aorta usually present as rapidly growing or ruptured pseudoaneurysms. Most these are pseudoaneurysm type. We presented case 61-year-old man who was diagnosed with tubercular abdominal associated posterior invasion vertebral body ...

We report the first description of CT findings of axillary tuberculous lymphadenitis confirmed by the pathological specimen. The breast cancer screening examination is one of the prime methods of detection of axillary tuberculous lymphadenitis. The most common site of axillary tuberculous lymphadenitis is the deep axilla. Screening mammography often fails to cover the whole axilla. The presence...

Abdominal tuberculosis is not a rare disease, but obstructive jaundice caused by tuberculosis (tuberculous lymphadenitis, tuberculous enlargement of the head of pancreas, and/or tuberculous stricture of the biliary tree) is rare. We recently experienced a case of obstructive jaundice as a result of paradoxical reaction of periportal tuberculous lymphadenopathy that was treated successfully with...

An extensive, although largely forgotten, literature addresses the utility of adjunctive corticosteroid therapy in the management of tuberculosis. Corticosteroid therapy probably improves neurological outcomes of, and decreases mortality due to, tuberculous meningitis of moderate severity. Although therapy for tuberculous pericarditis is simplified (with less need for operative intervention) by...