A Case of Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura Secondary to Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
| Autor: | Panda S; Junior Resident, Department of Medicine, MKCG Medical College , Brahmapur, Odisha, india ., Meher LK; Professor, Department of Medicine, MKCG Medical College , Brahmapur, Odisha ., Dalai SP; Junior Resident, Department of Medicine, MKCG Medical College , Brahmapur, Odisha, India ., Nayak S; Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, MKCG Medical College , Brahmapur, Odisha, India ., Tripathy SK; Senior Resident, Department of Medicine, MKCG Medical College , Brahmapur, Odisha, India . |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR [J Clin Diagn Res] 2016 Oct; Vol. 10 (10), pp. OD12-OD13. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Oct 01. |
| DOI: | 10.7860/JCDR/2016/21365.8726 |
| Abstrakt: | The haematological abnormalities associated with active pulmonary tuberculosis were known to human beings since decades but Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) secondary to pulmonary tuberculosis have been reported only in a couple of instances. We report a 27 year-old male patient who was admitted to our hospital with fever, shortness of breath, haematuria, epistaxis and generalized petechiae. The sputum positivity for Acid Fast Bacilli (AFB) and chest X-ray reports were suggestive of active pulmonary tuberculosis in our patient. Clinical and laboratory parameters including bone marrow aspiration cytology diagnosed the case to be ITP. Patient was put on Directly Observed Treatment and Short course (DOTS) category-1 Anti-Tuberculosis Therapy (ATT) and prednisone following which thrombocytopenia was corrected and there was complete recovery of the patient without recurrence of thrombocytopenia. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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