PLEUROPULMONARY PARAGONIMIASIS MIMICKING PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS - A REPORT OF THREE CASES pdf

... www.ijmm.org PLEUROPULMONARY PARAGONIMIASIS MIMICKING PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS – A REPORT OF THREE CASES *TN Singh, S Kananbala, KS Devi Abstract Paragonimiasis is an important cause of pulmonary disease ... inability to demonstrate acid fast bacilli in sputum smears. All patients had history of ingestion of raw crabs and crayfishes. The confirmed diagnosis of p...

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... Journals Full Length Research Paper Demographic and clinical characteristics of tuberculosis: A report of 2404 cases at a referral hospital Servet Kayhan Department of Pulmonary ... eight European countries (Turkey, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro). The WHO, 2010 Global Tuberculosis Control...

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... Indian Journal of Tuberculosis TUBERCULOSIS PNEUMONIA AS A PRIMARY CAUSE OF RESPIRATORY FAILURE -REPORT OF TWO CASES Case Report M.M. Puri 1 , Subodh Kumar 2 , Brahma Prakash 3 , K. Lokender 4 , A ... organism per se. These infiltrates can appear within a matter of days and can clinically simulate acute bacterial pneumonia. Anti-tubercular treatment has been considered to...

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... Shylashree Chikkamuniyappa and Jaishree Jagirdar Department of Pathology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 7822 9-3 900, USA A A b b s s t t r r a a c c t t ... females usually less than 30 years of age. The lesions are encapsulated or well-circumscribed. While sporadic forms usually appear as an isolated tumors, the cases associa...

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... Taiwan University Hospital, Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan 2 Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 3 Department ... Taiwan 3 Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan 4 Department of Pathology, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Nat...

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... literature as an important cause, although even in 1946, Spain and Handler had reported a series of 60 cases of Cor Pulmonale in which the majority had tuberculosis as the primary pathology. Walzar ... certain that Cor Pulmonale exists as a comp- lication in tuberculous individuals. Diagnosis based on clinical examination and radiology is not always easy, and a large proport...

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... inhibits macrophage activation by interferon-gamma and stimulates macrophages to secrete TNF-alpha (which causes fever, weight loss and tissue damage) and IL-10 (which suppresses mycobacteria-induced ... parts of a developing scar are in general at different stages at any given moment. GENERAL FEATURES OF CHRONIC INFLAMMATION: - INFILTRATION by MACROPHAGES, LYMPHOCYTES and PLAS...

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... Principal, Thomas Stephens and Associates, Ottawa, Canada. Anita Stewart, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Residence, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California. C. Barr Taylor, ... adults are not regularly physically active. In fact, 25 percent of all adults are not active at all. 6. Nearly half of American youths 12–21 years of age are not vigorously active on...

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... cellularity in pulmonary tuberculosis: A comparative study between HIV-positive and -negative individuals Rosemeri Maurici da Silva 1 *, Paula Stocco 1 , Maria Luiza Bazzo 2 and Mariana Chagas 2 ... immunocompetent patients, such as mediastinal and/or hilar lymph nodes and in some cases, no radiographic alterations (Haramati and Jenny-Avital, 1998; Shah et al., 1997; Keiper e...

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... depletion was associ- Ten patients with culture-positive pulmonary TB had no ated with intrathoracic adenopathy, a common feature of pri- abnormalities evident on a chest radiograph. Four were AFB mary ... Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS (CPCRA) and the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG). § Could not be calculated because of zero-containing cells. was a strong asso...

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