Clinical and Medical Case Reports

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Special Medical Center of Chinense People’s Armed Police Forces, Tianjin, China

Publications

• Case Report   
  Acute Miliary Tuberculosis with Diffuse Ground-glass Change as the First Imaging Manifestation: A Case Report
  Author(s): Xin Yu, Yahui Huang, Yin Zhang, Xianglong Cai, Liangliang Liu, Na Zhang, Jingzhi Zhu, Xiaotong Xi, Ran Ding and Guoqiang Li*
  
  Introduction: To investigate the clinical and chest imaging features of acute military tuberculosis with diffuse ground-glass opacities. Methods: A case of acute military tuberculosis with diffuse ground-glass opacities was reported. Results: The patient, a 52-year-old male, was hospitalized for 10 days with fever, and his body temperature fluctuated between 37.8° C and 40° C. The patient had a medical history of nephrotic syndrome for 20 years, lymph node tuberculosis for 10 years and viral hepatitis C for 3 years. There were no findings with Chest CT, and all 5 times of blood culture were negative during the first 12 days of the disease course. Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing (mNGS) was employed, revealing the detection of 13 specific reads belonging to M. tuberculosis complex, ind.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2684-4915.2024.8.288

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