Diagnostic delay in a multi-organ tuberculosis immunocompetent patient: A case report

P. V. Kishore; Subish Palaian; Raju Paudel; Mukhyaprana Prabhu; Jef Van Den Ende

Diagnostic delay in a multi-organ tuberculosis immunocompetent patient: A case report

P. V. Kishore
, Subish Palaian
, Raju Paudel
, Mukhyaprana Prabhu
, Jef Van Den Ende

Manipal Teaching Hospital Nepal
Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

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Abstract

A 67-year-old immunocompetent male presented with intermittent fever for 3 months associated with urinary incontinence, altered bowel habits and history of loss of appetite and weight. He was treated as having enteric fever at various clinics in the city by different physicians. On evaluation the patient was found to have disseminated tuberculosis with involvement of the lungs, eyes, testes, brain, bone, kidneys, liver, spleen and possibly the gastrointestinal tract. This paper reports a case of disseminated tuberculosis to many organs with significant diagnostic delay more than twelve decades after the discovery of the tuberculosis bacillus by Robert Koch.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	507-511
Number of pages	5
Journal	Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health
Volume	38
Issue number	3
State	Published - May 2007
Externally published	Yes

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Diagnostic delay in a multi-organ tuberculosis immunocompetent patient: A case report

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