A 41-year-old man was evaluated for swelling in the ankles and syncope. CT of the chest showed bilateral mediastinal and ...

Being a diagnosis of exclusion, investigations must first focus on ruling out infection, pulmonary embolism, drug-induced lung toxicity, organising pneumonia, alveolar haemorrhage, heart failure ...

Risk factors associated with extrapulmonary TB among US veterans include non-Hispanic Black race, diabetes, HIV infection, and severe kidney disease.

Kansas is facing one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks since the U.S. started officially tracking the disease in the 1950s. Host Robin Young talks with Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga, health equity ...

The most common site of extrapulmonary TB infection was the pleural cavity. Comorbidities associated with extrapulmonary TB include diabetes mellitus, HIV and severe kidney disease. A large study ...

The tuberculosis rate among U.S. patients with kidney failure from 2010 to 2021was 10-fold higher than that of the general ...

This study presents TBorNotTB, a CDSS designed to improve TB evaluation and streamline isolation decisions, reducing labor ...

Extrapulmonary TB disease, which affects organs in addition to or instead of the lungs, may cause other symptoms including back pain, blood in urine, headache or confusion. Persons with latent TB ...

Emerging drug-resistant strains are posing significant challenges to the global fight against tuberculosis (TB) and it is a critical task to detect treatment failure as early as possible.