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A Crucial Aftershock in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Survivors: A Case Report
Pulmonary tuberculosis is widely prevalent, and the survivors of this disease often present to healthcare facilities with long-term sequelae of the disease. Presented here is a case of a 25-year-old male who presented with concerns of fever, cough with expectoration, and blood in sputum. The patient...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8820472/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35154962 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20986 |
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description | Pulmonary tuberculosis is widely prevalent, and the survivors of this disease often present to healthcare facilities with long-term sequelae of the disease. Presented here is a case of a 25-year-old male who presented with concerns of fever, cough with expectoration, and blood in sputum. The patient was managed as per protocol in suspicion of necrotizing pneumonia and re-activation of tuberculosis (TB) as suggested by investigations. The hemoptysis gradually increased over time. With suspicion of a vascular aneurysm and in view of increasing hemoptysis, an early high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scan of the chest and a computed tomography (CT) scan of the bronchial angiography were performed. A diagnosis of Rasmussen’s aneurysm was made radiologically, and this rare and under-reported sequelae of TB in contemporary times was brought into notice. A holistic and multi-disciplinary approach involving emergency medicine physicians, internists, anesthesiologists, critical care physicians, pulmonologists, and radiologists can ensure optimal outcomes for such cases in hospital setups if timely intervened. |
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spelling | pubmed-88204722022-02-11 A Crucial Aftershock in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Survivors: A Case Report Ahlawat, Prashant Upadhyay, Prateek Cureus Emergency Medicine Pulmonary tuberculosis is widely prevalent, and the survivors of this disease often present to healthcare facilities with long-term sequelae of the disease. Presented here is a case of a 25-year-old male who presented with concerns of fever, cough with expectoration, and blood in sputum. The patient was managed as per protocol in suspicion of necrotizing pneumonia and re-activation of tuberculosis (TB) as suggested by investigations. The hemoptysis gradually increased over time. With suspicion of a vascular aneurysm and in view of increasing hemoptysis, an early high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scan of the chest and a computed tomography (CT) scan of the bronchial angiography were performed. A diagnosis of Rasmussen’s aneurysm was made radiologically, and this rare and under-reported sequelae of TB in contemporary times was brought into notice. A holistic and multi-disciplinary approach involving emergency medicine physicians, internists, anesthesiologists, critical care physicians, pulmonologists, and radiologists can ensure optimal outcomes for such cases in hospital setups if timely intervened. Cureus 2022-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8820472/ /pubmed/35154962 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20986 Text en Copyright © 2022, Ahlawat 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. |
spellingShingle | Emergency Medicine Ahlawat, Prashant Upadhyay, Prateek A Crucial Aftershock in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Survivors: A Case Report |
title | A Crucial Aftershock in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Survivors: A Case Report |
title_full | A Crucial Aftershock in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Survivors: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | A Crucial Aftershock in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Survivors: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | A Crucial Aftershock in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Survivors: A Case Report |
title_short | A Crucial Aftershock in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Survivors: A Case Report |
title_sort | crucial aftershock in pulmonary tuberculosis survivors: a case report |
topic | Emergency Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8820472/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35154962 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20986 |
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