Unusual presentation of miliary tuberculosis in a 12-year-old girl: a case report

Unusual presentation of miliary tuberculosis in a 12-year-old girl: a case report

Miliary tuberculosis (TB) is a lethal hematogenous spread form of mycobacterium tuberculosis with approximately 15-20% mortality rate in children. The present report highlights the clinical manifestations of an unusual presentation of miliary tuberculosis in a 12-year-old girl. In this case, extensi...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMC pediatrics 2024-04, Vol.24 (1), p.223-7, Article 223
Hauptverfasser: Kamali, Mahsa, Navaeifar, Mohammad Reza, Abbaskhanian, Ali, Hajialibeig, Azin, Godazandeh, Farnaz, Salehpour, Mahsa, Rezai, Mohammad Sadegh
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Sprache:eng
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Anorexia
BCG Vaccine
Case Report
Case reports
Child
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Disease
Female
Fever
HIV
Hospitalization
Hospitals
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Immune system
Medical imaging
Meningitis
Miliary
Mortality
Mycobacteria
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Patients
Pediatrics
Pons
Steroids
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, Miliary - diagnosis
Tuberculosis, Miliary - drug therapy
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Zusammenfassung:Miliary tuberculosis (TB) is a lethal hematogenous spread form of mycobacterium tuberculosis with approximately 15-20% mortality rate in children. The present report highlights the clinical manifestations of an unusual presentation of miliary tuberculosis in a 12-year-old girl. In this case, extensive lung involvement was presented despite the absence of respiratory symptoms. Also, some central hypo-intense with hyper-intense rim nodules were detected in the brain's pons, right cerebral peduncles and lentiform nucleus. The results of this study showed that severe miliary TB may occur even in a person who received the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine.
ISSN:1471-2431
1471-2431
DOI:10.1186/s12887-023-04427-x