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
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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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author Okar, Lina
Rezek, Mohamad
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description 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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spelling pubmed-86053792021-11-26 Case report of active pulmonary TB in a sickle cell disease patient Okar, Lina Rezek, Mohamad Abdelhamid, Mohamed Talaat Yassin, Mohamed A. Ann Med Surg (Lond) Case Report 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. Elsevier 2021-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8605379/ /pubmed/34840778 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.103073 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://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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