Tuberculous spondylitis is a TB infection that affects the spine. It may cause back pain and, in severe cases, deformity or neurological issues. Tuberculous spondylitis is a tuberculosis (TB) ...

Tuberculous spondylitis occurs when a tuberculous infection spreads to the spine. Bacterial damage to the spine can cause severe pain, abnormal back curvature, and paralysis. The condition is serious ...

Tuberculous peritonitis occurs when tuberculosis (TB) spreads to the protective lining of your abdomen. This can cause abdominal pain and swelling, but early antibiotic treatment can help. Tuberculous ...

Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) causes death and disability, with especially high rates of poor outcomes in children and individuals with an HIV-1 co-infection Important risk factors for poor outcome are ...

Tuberculous meningitis is often lethal. Early antituberculosis treatment and adjunctive treatment with glucocorticoids improve survival, but nearly one third of patients with the condition still die.

European Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2003), pp. 337-343 (7 pages) A retrospective study was performed to assess the epidemiology, diagnosis, clinic, and laboratory of the patients with ...

BARCELONA, SPAIN — In the large Investigation of the Management of Pericarditis (IMPI) trial of patients with presumed tuberculous pericarditis, neither of two immunotherapies—prednisolone and ...

Patients who started ART during the first week of TB treatment had the same mortality risk as those who started after 2 months of TB treatment; they also had more grade 4 adverse events. The timing of ...

Adjunctive glucocorticoids are widely used to treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–associated tuberculous meningitis despite limited data supporting their safety and efficacy. We conducted a ...

Diabetes is a chronic (long-lasting) disease that damages the body’s ability to convert food into energy. In diabetes, either the insulin is not produced properly or it is not utilized properly. TB is ...

We studied the activity of adenosine deaminase in the cerebrospinal fluid of 40 normal controls and 205 patients who were grouped according to disease (tuberculous, viral, and purulent meningitis; ...