Disseminated tuberculosis presenting as massive lower gastrointestinal bleeding

Intestinal tuberculosis has varied clinical presentations and often requires high index of suspicion for clinching the diagnosis. We report a case of an 18-year-old male who presented with abrupt onset of massive lower gastrointestinal bleeding and was diagnosed to have ileocecal tuberculosis. This...

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Autores principales: Aggarwal, Nehal, Mahto, Subodh kumar, Singh, Akanskha, Gupta, Kritika, Aneja, Ankita, Singh, Anu, Goel, Atul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7114054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32318501
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1000_19
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Sumario:Intestinal tuberculosis has varied clinical presentations and often requires high index of suspicion for clinching the diagnosis. We report a case of an 18-year-old male who presented with abrupt onset of massive lower gastrointestinal bleeding and was diagnosed to have ileocecal tuberculosis. This case signifies the need to consider the possibility of intestinal tuberculosis as a cause of severe hematochezia among other etiologies to prevent mortality and morbidity.

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