American Journal of BioMedicine Volume 10, Issue 1, pages 1-5
Aran A Groover1, Natalia A. Huan
Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of disease that affects people of all age groups in many countries. The incidence of new is decreasing at rate about 2%/year due to the advances in medical diagnosis and treatment. The primary TB infection or reactivation of latent TB can be spread as result of impaired cell-mediated immunity resulted in uncontrolled disseminated of Mycobacterium tuberculosis through lymphohematogenous system. While, immunocompromise patients such as HIV/AIDS infection, use of immunosuppressive drugs, organ transplant, malnutrition, alcohol use, pregnancy, silicosis, and underlying malignancy are at high risk for development of Miliary TB. It usually has an insidious clinical manifestation including fever, weight loss, night sweats, and little in the way of localizing symptoms or signs. There may be concurrent TB meningitis with associated symptoms. A 35-year old male has known case of pulmonary TB and HCV before three years ago. Presented to emergency department with fever since 3-weeks ago, abdomen pain, headache since 10 days.
Keywords: Miliary Tuberculosis (TB), HCV, Meningitis
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