Case report of active pulmonary TB in a sickle cell disease patient

Both Sickle cell disease (SCD) and Tuberculosis (TB) are prevalent, and mostly concentrated in similar geographic areas. Since there is an overlap of the possible presenting symptoms of SCD complications and TB, a low threshold for suspicion of TB in these patients is recommended. We present a case...

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Autores principales: Okar, Lina, Rezek, Mohamad, Abdelhamid, Mohamed Talaat, Yassin, Mohamed A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8605379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34840778
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.103073
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Sumario:Both Sickle cell disease (SCD) and Tuberculosis (TB) are prevalent, and mostly concentrated in similar geographic areas. Since there is an overlap of the possible presenting symptoms of SCD complications and TB, a low threshold for suspicion of TB in these patients is recommended. We present a case of an active TB infection in a SCD patient that presented mainly with chronic cough.

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