Pleural Tuberculosis: A Febrile Presentation Without Respiratory Symptoms

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the largest public health crises globally, with pleural TB comprising a large portion of cases. It has a significantly minimal presence within the United States in comparison to the rest of the world. Awareness of its presence and acumen on diagnostics and treatment are e...

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Autores principales: Ghumman, Ussama, Ghumman, Haider, Nawab, Khalid, Singh, Amandeep, Naeem, Awais
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33133813
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10643
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author Ghumman, Ussama
Ghumman, Haider
Nawab, Khalid
Singh, Amandeep
Naeem, Awais
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description Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the largest public health crises globally, with pleural TB comprising a large portion of cases. It has a significantly minimal presence within the United States in comparison to the rest of the world. Awareness of its presence and acumen on diagnostics and treatment are essential. Conventional tests are often time consuming, and do not always yield accurate results. We present the case of a patient presenting with fevers but no cough, who eventually found to have large pleural effusion and concluded to have pleural TB without pulmonary parenchymal involvement. He then showed measurable improvement with empiric treatment.
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spelling pubmed-75864092020-10-29 Pleural Tuberculosis: A Febrile Presentation Without Respiratory Symptoms Ghumman, Ussama Ghumman, Haider Nawab, Khalid Singh, Amandeep Naeem, Awais Cureus Internal Medicine Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the largest public health crises globally, with pleural TB comprising a large portion of cases. It has a significantly minimal presence within the United States in comparison to the rest of the world. Awareness of its presence and acumen on diagnostics and treatment are essential. Conventional tests are often time consuming, and do not always yield accurate results. We present the case of a patient presenting with fevers but no cough, who eventually found to have large pleural effusion and concluded to have pleural TB without pulmonary parenchymal involvement. He then showed measurable improvement with empiric treatment. Cureus 2020-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7586409/ /pubmed/33133813 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10643 Text en Copyright © 2020, Ghumman et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Ghumman, Ussama
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Pleural Tuberculosis: A Febrile Presentation Without Respiratory Symptoms
title Pleural Tuberculosis: A Febrile Presentation Without Respiratory Symptoms
title_full Pleural Tuberculosis: A Febrile Presentation Without Respiratory Symptoms
title_fullStr Pleural Tuberculosis: A Febrile Presentation Without Respiratory Symptoms
title_full_unstemmed Pleural Tuberculosis: A Febrile Presentation Without Respiratory Symptoms
title_short Pleural Tuberculosis: A Febrile Presentation Without Respiratory Symptoms
title_sort pleural tuberculosis: a febrile presentation without respiratory symptoms
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33133813
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10643
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