Immune thrombocytopenia associated with tuberculosis – A case report

Tuberculosis can involve the hematological system and cause anemia, leucopenia, leukocytosis, thrombocytopenia, and thrombocytosis. Immune thrombocytopenia related to tuberculosis is rare. We present a case of a 54 years old male patient who was evaluated for isolated asymptomatic thrombocytopenia d...

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Autores principales: Khan, Adeel Ahmad, Shahzad, Aamir, Javid, Haleema, Fatima, Tehreem, Yousaf, Zohaib
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/PMC7708927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33304813
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e01012
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author Khan, Adeel Ahmad
Shahzad, Aamir
Javid, Haleema
Fatima, Tehreem
Yousaf, Zohaib
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description Tuberculosis can involve the hematological system and cause anemia, leucopenia, leukocytosis, thrombocytopenia, and thrombocytosis. Immune thrombocytopenia related to tuberculosis is rare. We present a case of a 54 years old male patient who was evaluated for isolated asymptomatic thrombocytopenia discovered on routine laboratory investigations. Work up was positive for disseminated tuberculosis. The patient responded to a tapering dose of steroids and anti-tuberculous medications with significant and persistent platelet count improvement.
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spelling pubmed-77089272020-12-09 Immune thrombocytopenia associated with tuberculosis – A case report Khan, Adeel Ahmad Shahzad, Aamir Javid, Haleema Fatima, Tehreem Yousaf, Zohaib IDCases Case Report Tuberculosis can involve the hematological system and cause anemia, leucopenia, leukocytosis, thrombocytopenia, and thrombocytosis. Immune thrombocytopenia related to tuberculosis is rare. We present a case of a 54 years old male patient who was evaluated for isolated asymptomatic thrombocytopenia discovered on routine laboratory investigations. Work up was positive for disseminated tuberculosis. The patient responded to a tapering dose of steroids and anti-tuberculous medications with significant and persistent platelet count improvement. Elsevier 2020-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7708927/ /pubmed/33304813 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e01012 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Immune thrombocytopenia associated with tuberculosis – A case report
title Immune thrombocytopenia associated with tuberculosis – A case report
title_full Immune thrombocytopenia associated with tuberculosis – A case report
title_fullStr Immune thrombocytopenia associated with tuberculosis – A case report
title_full_unstemmed Immune thrombocytopenia associated with tuberculosis – A case report
title_short Immune thrombocytopenia associated with tuberculosis – A case report
title_sort immune thrombocytopenia associated with tuberculosis – a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7708927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33304813
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e01012
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