What else can we do to check if it’s cancer? Dr. Chase says we should do a biopsy on it now to see what it is. Dr. Wilson says we should do a PET scan first to find out if it has spread to other parts of the body Dr. Taub says we should do an echocardiogram to see if ...
Early diagnosis and treatment of central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis (TB) are very important because of its high morbidity and mortality characteristics. However, the clinical symptoms, laboratory and neuroimaging findings of CNS TB are...
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Important causes of non-responding pneumonia include multidrug resistant pathogens, tuberculosis, empyema or lung abscess and non-infectious causes such as pulmonary embolism, lung cancer or vasculitis [1]. Our patient had no symptoms or signs suggestive of connective tissue disease. CT pulmonary angiog...
This biosensor induces AgNP aggregation in the presence of the target DNA, resulting in a detectable color change, with LODs of 1.53 nM for MERS-CoV, 1.27 nM for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), and 1.03 nM for human papillomavirus (HPV). It is important to emphasize that PNA ...
Xpert MTB/Rif (Xpert) is described as a game changer in tuberculosis (TB) control. We evaluated the impact of Xpert on diagnosis, time to treatment, and treatment outcome among patients with HIV associated TB in Nigeria. Methods Adults with HIV being evaluated for pulmonary TB (PTB) were co...
Contraindications to PFTs include acute respiratory distress, unstable angina, pneumothorax, ongoing hemoptysis, and active tuberculosis. Test results are effort-dependent, and suboptimal effort limits validity and is a common cause of misinterpretation of results. The ATS/ERS 2021 interpretation standards ...
Fine-needle aspiration biopsy monitored with computed tomography was used for the diagnosis of vertebral tuberculosis in thirty-eight patients; the diagnosis was confirmed by culture or by a Ziehl-Neelsen stain of the smear in thirty-four of the patients. Cytological...