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
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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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author Aggarwal, Nehal
Mahto, Subodh kumar
Singh, Akanskha
Gupta, Kritika
Aneja, Ankita
Singh, Anu
Goel, Atul
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description 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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spelling pubmed-71140542020-04-21 Disseminated tuberculosis presenting as massive lower gastrointestinal bleeding Aggarwal, Nehal Mahto, Subodh kumar Singh, Akanskha Gupta, Kritika Aneja, Ankita Singh, Anu Goel, Atul J Family Med Prim Care Case Report 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. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7114054/ /pubmed/32318501 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1000_19 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7114054/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1000_19
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