COVID-19 in a patient with active tuberculosis: A rare case-report

Scarce data exist about the clinical features of COVID-19 in patients with concomitant active and/or latent tuberculosis (TB). This rare case-report outlines the diagnosis, management and outcome of a sixty year old hypertensive and diabetic patient with serious COVID-19 pneumonia and underlying act...

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Autores principales: Faqihi, Fahad, Alharthy, Abdulrahman, Noor, AlFateh, Balshi, Ahmed, Balhamar, Abdullah, Karakitsos, Dimitrios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7334644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32665887
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101146
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author Faqihi, Fahad
Alharthy, Abdulrahman
Noor, AlFateh
Balshi, Ahmed
Balhamar, Abdullah
Karakitsos, Dimitrios
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description Scarce data exist about the clinical features of COVID-19 in patients with concomitant active and/or latent tuberculosis (TB). This rare case-report outlines the diagnosis, management and outcome of a sixty year old hypertensive and diabetic patient with serious COVID-19 pneumonia and underlying active TB. The patient was treated successfully in a COVID-19 designated intensive care unit in Saudi Arabia.
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spelling pubmed-73346442020-07-06 COVID-19 in a patient with active tuberculosis: A rare case-report Faqihi, Fahad Alharthy, Abdulrahman Noor, AlFateh Balshi, Ahmed Balhamar, Abdullah Karakitsos, Dimitrios Respir Med Case Rep Case Report Scarce data exist about the clinical features of COVID-19 in patients with concomitant active and/or latent tuberculosis (TB). This rare case-report outlines the diagnosis, management and outcome of a sixty year old hypertensive and diabetic patient with serious COVID-19 pneumonia and underlying active TB. The patient was treated successfully in a COVID-19 designated intensive care unit in Saudi Arabia. Elsevier 2020-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7334644/ /pubmed/32665887 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101146 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) 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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