Pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as diffuse alveolar hemorrhage: Believe it or not

Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) has been rarely reported with pulmonary infections and even rarer with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). We hereby report the case of a 31-year-old male, a known case of ankylosing spondylitis, who presented with clinical and radiological features consistent with DAH. I...

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Autores principales: Khurana, Alkesh Kumar, Jain, Sourabh, Goyal, Abhishek, Saigal, Saurabh, Khurana, Ujjawal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6219147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30381561
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_203_17
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author Khurana, Alkesh Kumar
Jain, Sourabh
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description Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) has been rarely reported with pulmonary infections and even rarer with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). We hereby report the case of a 31-year-old male, a known case of ankylosing spondylitis, who presented with clinical and radiological features consistent with DAH. Initial partial improvement with steroids was followed by a microbiological diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). Starting of antituberculous treatment was followed by complete clinical improvement. This leads to a thought-provoking possible association between the two pathologies, DAH and PTB, if any.
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spelling pubmed-62191472018-11-30 Pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as diffuse alveolar hemorrhage: Believe it or not Khurana, Alkesh Kumar Jain, Sourabh Goyal, Abhishek Saigal, Saurabh Khurana, Ujjawal Lung India Case Report Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) has been rarely reported with pulmonary infections and even rarer with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). We hereby report the case of a 31-year-old male, a known case of ankylosing spondylitis, who presented with clinical and radiological features consistent with DAH. Initial partial improvement with steroids was followed by a microbiological diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). Starting of antituberculous treatment was followed by complete clinical improvement. This leads to a thought-provoking possible association between the two pathologies, DAH and PTB, if any. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6219147/ /pubmed/30381561 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_203_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Chest Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as diffuse alveolar hemorrhage: Believe it or not
title_full Pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as diffuse alveolar hemorrhage: Believe it or not
title_fullStr Pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as diffuse alveolar hemorrhage: Believe it or not
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as diffuse alveolar hemorrhage: Believe it or not
title_short Pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as diffuse alveolar hemorrhage: Believe it or not
title_sort pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as diffuse alveolar hemorrhage: believe it or not
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6219147/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_203_17
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