A case of concomitant bronchial AnthracoFibrosis and tuberculosis presented as asthma-COPD- overlaps syndrome (ACOS)

In this article we present a case of a 75-year-old nonsmoker woman who was misdiagnosed as asthma-chronic obstructive airway disease overlap. The patient's history, examination and investigation confirmed the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) and anthracofibrosis (AFB). Our case demonstrates the d...

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Autores principales: Saman, Harman, Mhammed, Hadi, Ali Mohammed, Kosar, Karadakhy, Kamaran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6610704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31312596
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2019.100891
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author Saman, Harman
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description In this article we present a case of a 75-year-old nonsmoker woman who was misdiagnosed as asthma-chronic obstructive airway disease overlap. The patient's history, examination and investigation confirmed the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) and anthracofibrosis (AFB). Our case demonstrates the difficulties that clinicians face with when patients present with chronic wheeze without any other specific symptoms at the outset.
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spelling pubmed-66107042019-07-16 A case of concomitant bronchial AnthracoFibrosis and tuberculosis presented as asthma-COPD- overlaps syndrome (ACOS) Saman, Harman Mhammed, Hadi Ali Mohammed, Kosar Karadakhy, Kamaran Respir Med Case Rep Case Report In this article we present a case of a 75-year-old nonsmoker woman who was misdiagnosed as asthma-chronic obstructive airway disease overlap. The patient's history, examination and investigation confirmed the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) and anthracofibrosis (AFB). Our case demonstrates the difficulties that clinicians face with when patients present with chronic wheeze without any other specific symptoms at the outset. Elsevier 2019-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6610704/ /pubmed/31312596 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2019.100891 Text en © 2019 Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Saman, Harman
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A case of concomitant bronchial AnthracoFibrosis and tuberculosis presented as asthma-COPD- overlaps syndrome (ACOS)
title A case of concomitant bronchial AnthracoFibrosis and tuberculosis presented as asthma-COPD- overlaps syndrome (ACOS)
title_full A case of concomitant bronchial AnthracoFibrosis and tuberculosis presented as asthma-COPD- overlaps syndrome (ACOS)
title_fullStr A case of concomitant bronchial AnthracoFibrosis and tuberculosis presented as asthma-COPD- overlaps syndrome (ACOS)
title_full_unstemmed A case of concomitant bronchial AnthracoFibrosis and tuberculosis presented as asthma-COPD- overlaps syndrome (ACOS)
title_short A case of concomitant bronchial AnthracoFibrosis and tuberculosis presented as asthma-COPD- overlaps syndrome (ACOS)
title_sort case of concomitant bronchial anthracofibrosis and tuberculosis presented as asthma-copd- overlaps syndrome (acos)
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6610704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31312596
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2019.100891
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