Short Course of High-dose Steroids for Anaphylaxis Caused Flare Up of Tuberculosis: A Case Report

A 25-year-old male patient received high-dose intravenous steroids for life-threatening anaphylaxis because of bee sting only for 4 days resulted in reactivation of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Clinical presentation is acute form of progressive pulmonary tuberculosis with pleural efusion th...

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Autores principales: Patil, Shital, Jadhav, Anil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sciendo 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6463822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30997356
http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jtim-2019-0008
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description A 25-year-old male patient received high-dose intravenous steroids for life-threatening anaphylaxis because of bee sting only for 4 days resulted in reactivation of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Clinical presentation is acute form of progressive pulmonary tuberculosis with pleural efusion that can be misdiagnosed as a community-acquired pneumonia. High index of suspicion with adequate evaluation is must in all cases to have satisfactory treatment outcome. Bronchoscopy is crucial in evaluation with histopathology expertise is must while managing such cases.
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spelling pubmed-64638222019-04-17 Short Course of High-dose Steroids for Anaphylaxis Caused Flare Up of Tuberculosis: A Case Report Patil, Shital Jadhav, Anil J Transl Int Med Case Report A 25-year-old male patient received high-dose intravenous steroids for life-threatening anaphylaxis because of bee sting only for 4 days resulted in reactivation of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Clinical presentation is acute form of progressive pulmonary tuberculosis with pleural efusion that can be misdiagnosed as a community-acquired pneumonia. High index of suspicion with adequate evaluation is must in all cases to have satisfactory treatment outcome. Bronchoscopy is crucial in evaluation with histopathology expertise is must while managing such cases. Sciendo 2019-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6463822/ /pubmed/30997356 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jtim-2019-0008 Text en © 2019 Shital Patil, Anil Jadhav, published by Sciendo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.
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