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- Title
Pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as diffuse alveolar hemorrhage: Believe it or not.
- Authors
Khurana, Alkesh Kumar; Jain, Sourabh; Goyal, Abhishek; Saigal, Saurabh; Khurana, Ujjawal
- Abstract
Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) has been rarely reported with pulmonary infections and even rarer with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). We hereby report the case of a 31-year-old male, a known case of ankylosing spondylitis, who presented with clinical and radiological features consistent with DAH. Initial partial improvement with steroids was followed by a microbiological diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). Starting of antituberculous treatment was followed by complete clinical improvement. This leads to a thought-provoking possible association between the two pathologies, DAH and PTB, if any.
- Subjects
TUBERCULOSIS; STEROIDS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SPONDYLITIS; BRONCHOSCOPY
- Publication
Lung India, 2018, Vol 35, Issue 6, p508
- ISSN
0970-2113
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_203_17