Venous Thromboembolism: An Unusual Presentation of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death due to infectious etiology worldwide. Myriad presentations and multisystem involvement of the disease can make the diagnosis extremely challenging. Venous thromboembolism is an uncommon entity in tuberculosis. The prevalence of venous thromboembolism is repor...

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Autores principales: Purayil, Nishan K, Sirajudeen, Jaseem, Al Arbi, Khaled M, Baghi, Mohamed A, Zahid, Muhammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8065094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33907638
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14092
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author Purayil, Nishan K
Sirajudeen, Jaseem
Al Arbi, Khaled M
Baghi, Mohamed A
Zahid, Muhammad
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description Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death due to infectious etiology worldwide. Myriad presentations and multisystem involvement of the disease can make the diagnosis extremely challenging. Venous thromboembolism is an uncommon entity in tuberculosis. The prevalence of venous thromboembolism is reported to be 1.5-3.4%. The etiology of thrombosis could be multifactorial. All the elements of Virchow’s triad can be present in these patients. This case report is about a patient presenting with deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), who was subsequently diagnosed with active pulmonary tuberculosis.
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spelling pubmed-80650942021-04-26 Venous Thromboembolism: An Unusual Presentation of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Purayil, Nishan K Sirajudeen, Jaseem Al Arbi, Khaled M Baghi, Mohamed A Zahid, Muhammad Cureus Internal Medicine Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death due to infectious etiology worldwide. Myriad presentations and multisystem involvement of the disease can make the diagnosis extremely challenging. Venous thromboembolism is an uncommon entity in tuberculosis. The prevalence of venous thromboembolism is reported to be 1.5-3.4%. The etiology of thrombosis could be multifactorial. All the elements of Virchow’s triad can be present in these patients. This case report is about a patient presenting with deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), who was subsequently diagnosed with active pulmonary tuberculosis. Cureus 2021-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8065094/ /pubmed/33907638 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14092 Text en Copyright © 2021, Purayil et al. https://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.
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Purayil, Nishan K
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title_fullStr Venous Thromboembolism: An Unusual Presentation of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
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title_short Venous Thromboembolism: An Unusual Presentation of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
title_sort venous thromboembolism: an unusual presentation of pulmonary tuberculosis
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8065094/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14092
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