Items tagged with Extrapulmonary TB
Diagnostic accuracy of Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra for tuberculous meningitis in HIV-infected adults: a prospective cohort study (post)
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Interventions for treating tuberculous pericarditis (post)
Researchers from South Africa and Canada have carried out a Cochrane review update to assess the safety and effectiveness of corticosteroids for treating tuberculous pericarditis.
GCTA Community Chitter Chatter on TB stigma in children (post)
Chinmay Modi, a young man of 25 years from India, living openly with HIV, struggled to get a correct diagnosis for TB for one and a half years before he was finally diagnosed with TB in his lymph nodes when he was 15. He took TB treatment for a year and today he is a strong TB/HIV advocate.
PET scans to optimize TB meningitis treatments and personalize care, study finds (post)
Although relatively rare in the United States, and accounting for fewer than 5 percent of tuberculosis cases worldwide, TB of the brain--or tuberculosis meningitis (TBM)--is often deadly, always hard to treat, and a particular threat to young children. It may leave survivors with lifelong brain damage. Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report they have used PET scans, a rabbit model and a specially tagged version of the TB drug rifampin to advance physicians' understanding of this disease by showing precisely how little rifampin ever reaches the sites of TB infection in the brain.
Earlier diagnosis and treatment assessment of TB achieved with PET/CT (post)
ANAHEIM, CA, June 24, 2019 – Research presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging’s 2019 Annual Meeting shows that molecular imaging with 18F-FDG positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) can evaluate tuberculosis at the molecular level, effectively identifying diseased areas and guiding treatment for patients.
Disseminated TB in refugees without HIV: diagnosis and treatment (post)
Treating refugee patients with severe disseminated tuberculosis (TB) who do not have HIV presents unique diagnostic and therapeutic challenges, requiring heightened awareness, comprehensive medical histories despite language barriers, and a multidisciplinary team effort between healthcare providers, social workers, clinical psychologists, and nutritionists, according to a grand rounds report published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
TB meningitis kills and damages nerve cells in brain through ‘overstimulation’ (post)
Study reveals how tuberculous meningitis (TBM) damages the nervous system along similar lines as chronic brain conditions such as Alzheimer’s.
Xpert Ultra improves TB meningitis detection, does not rule out disease (post)
In an HIV-positive population, the Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra assay detected tuberculous meningitis with higher sensitivity than the older Xpert assay and a mycobacterial growth indicator tube culture, according to findings published in The Lancet.
High death rate for HIV-associated meningitis reported in African hospitals (post)
Evidence review finds approximately half of hospital patients with cryptococcal, tuberculosis or pneumococcal meningitis died within two weeks or during hospitalisation.
New test for diagnosis of tuberculosis meningitis in patients with HIV (post)
A new 60-minute point-of-care lateral flow assay featured the same sensitivity as mycobacterial culture in detecting tuberculosis meningitis (TBM) in adult patients with HIV, according to a study in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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