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A 27-Year-Old Woman Diagnosed with Tuberculous Spondylitis, or Pott Disease, During Pregnancy: A Case Report

Patient: Female, 27-year-old Final Diagnosis: Pott’s disease Symptoms: Worsening severe neck and back pain Medication: Anti-tuberculosis medications Clinical Procedure: Post-gadolinium contrast T1-weighted diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated multiple soft tissue spinal lesion (T2...

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Autores principales: Alajaji, Nouf M., Sallout, Bahauddin, Baradwan, Saeed
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Publicado: International Scientific Literature, Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9195639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35684941
http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/AJCR.936583
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author Alajaji, Nouf M.
Sallout, Bahauddin
Baradwan, Saeed
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description Patient: Female, 27-year-old Final Diagnosis: Pott’s disease Symptoms: Worsening severe neck and back pain Medication: Anti-tuberculosis medications Clinical Procedure: Post-gadolinium contrast T1-weighted diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated multiple soft tissue spinal lesion (T2-T4) • computed tomography (CT)-guided biopsy confirmed a case of Pott’s disease Specialty: Obstetrics and Gynecology OBJECTIVE: Rare disease BACKGROUND: Tuberculous spondylitis, or Pott disease, includes vertebral body osteomyelitis and intervertebral discitis following infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and can present with vertebral collapse and back pain. This report is of a 27-year-old woman diagnosed with tuberculous spondylitis, or Pott disease, during pregnancy. CASE REPORT: A 27-year-old female, in her first pregnancy and at 29 weeks of gestation, presented to the Emergency Department with worsening severe neck and back pain for the past 5 months. Post-gadolinium contrast T1-weighted diffusion magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated multiple soft tissue spinal lesions (T2-T4). Computed tomography-guided biopsy showed a central caseous necrosis enclosed by a granuloma containing a wide array of cells comprising epithelioid cells, Langhans giant cells, lymphocytes, and plasma cells. Ziehl-Neelsen staining was positive for acid-fast bacilli. The final diagnosis was consistent with Pott disease. The patient received anti-tuberculosis medications, her symptoms improved over time, and she delivered vaginally at term. At a 16-month follow-up, her symptoms had improved, and she returned to her normal daily activities. There were no complications arising from the use of gadolinium contrast in the mother or toddler. CONCLUSIONS: This report has highlighted the importance of imaging of the spine in the diagnosis of causes of severe back pain. This rare presentation of Pott disease in pregnancy has shown the challenges in diagnosis and the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and management so that treatment protects both the mother and fetus.
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spelling pubmed-91956392022-06-29 A 27-Year-Old Woman Diagnosed with Tuberculous Spondylitis, or Pott Disease, During Pregnancy: A Case Report Alajaji, Nouf M. Sallout, Bahauddin Baradwan, Saeed Am J Case Rep Articles Patient: Female, 27-year-old Final Diagnosis: Pott’s disease Symptoms: Worsening severe neck and back pain Medication: Anti-tuberculosis medications Clinical Procedure: Post-gadolinium contrast T1-weighted diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated multiple soft tissue spinal lesion (T2-T4) • computed tomography (CT)-guided biopsy confirmed a case of Pott’s disease Specialty: Obstetrics and Gynecology OBJECTIVE: Rare disease BACKGROUND: Tuberculous spondylitis, or Pott disease, includes vertebral body osteomyelitis and intervertebral discitis following infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and can present with vertebral collapse and back pain. This report is of a 27-year-old woman diagnosed with tuberculous spondylitis, or Pott disease, during pregnancy. CASE REPORT: A 27-year-old female, in her first pregnancy and at 29 weeks of gestation, presented to the Emergency Department with worsening severe neck and back pain for the past 5 months. Post-gadolinium contrast T1-weighted diffusion magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated multiple soft tissue spinal lesions (T2-T4). Computed tomography-guided biopsy showed a central caseous necrosis enclosed by a granuloma containing a wide array of cells comprising epithelioid cells, Langhans giant cells, lymphocytes, and plasma cells. Ziehl-Neelsen staining was positive for acid-fast bacilli. The final diagnosis was consistent with Pott disease. The patient received anti-tuberculosis medications, her symptoms improved over time, and she delivered vaginally at term. At a 16-month follow-up, her symptoms had improved, and she returned to her normal daily activities. There were no complications arising from the use of gadolinium contrast in the mother or toddler. CONCLUSIONS: This report has highlighted the importance of imaging of the spine in the diagnosis of causes of severe back pain. This rare presentation of Pott disease in pregnancy has shown the challenges in diagnosis and the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and management so that treatment protects both the mother and fetus. International Scientific Literature, Inc. 2022-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9195639/ /pubmed/35684941 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/AJCR.936583 Text en © Am J Case Rep, 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This work is licensed under Creative Common Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) )
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A 27-Year-Old Woman Diagnosed with Tuberculous Spondylitis, or Pott Disease, During Pregnancy: A Case Report
title A 27-Year-Old Woman Diagnosed with Tuberculous Spondylitis, or Pott Disease, During Pregnancy: A Case Report
title_full A 27-Year-Old Woman Diagnosed with Tuberculous Spondylitis, or Pott Disease, During Pregnancy: A Case Report
title_fullStr A 27-Year-Old Woman Diagnosed with Tuberculous Spondylitis, or Pott Disease, During Pregnancy: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed A 27-Year-Old Woman Diagnosed with Tuberculous Spondylitis, or Pott Disease, During Pregnancy: A Case Report
title_short A 27-Year-Old Woman Diagnosed with Tuberculous Spondylitis, or Pott Disease, During Pregnancy: A Case Report
title_sort 27-year-old woman diagnosed with tuberculous spondylitis, or pott disease, during pregnancy: a case report
topic Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9195639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35684941
http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/AJCR.936583
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