Meningeal TB in a 39-Year-Old Male Presenting with Headache

Meningeal tuberculosis is rare in the developed world, with only 92 cases of meningeal TB reported in the United States in 2014 according to the CDC (CDC, 2015). We describe the case of a 39-year-old male with a history of alcohol abuse, whose cerebral spinal fluid acid fast smears confirmed TB only...

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Autores principales: Selinger, Jason, Baage, Thar El
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5634589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29082052
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4753670
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description Meningeal tuberculosis is rare in the developed world, with only 92 cases of meningeal TB reported in the United States in 2014 according to the CDC (CDC, 2015). We describe the case of a 39-year-old male with a history of alcohol abuse, whose cerebral spinal fluid acid fast smears confirmed TB only weeks after his death. His only initial presenting symptom was headache, and his condition declined rapidly during his hospitalization.
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spelling pubmed-56345892017-10-29 Meningeal TB in a 39-Year-Old Male Presenting with Headache Selinger, Jason Baage, Thar El Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Meningeal tuberculosis is rare in the developed world, with only 92 cases of meningeal TB reported in the United States in 2014 according to the CDC (CDC, 2015). We describe the case of a 39-year-old male with a history of alcohol abuse, whose cerebral spinal fluid acid fast smears confirmed TB only weeks after his death. His only initial presenting symptom was headache, and his condition declined rapidly during his hospitalization. Hindawi 2017 2017-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5634589/ /pubmed/29082052 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4753670 Text en Copyright © 2017 Jason Selinger and Thar El Baage. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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