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Pott's Disease in Tuberculosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology:
 - Typically from TB endemic areas
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Typically from TB ... patients with TB ... extrapulmonary cases Clinical ... active pulmonary TB ... - Spread of bacilli
Focused Assessment with Sonography for HIV/TB - The FASH Exam

The main objective of the FASH exam
Sonography for HIV/TB ... extrapulmonary TB ... Focused #Assessment #Ultrasound
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
tuberculosis (MDR-TB ... Droplets that contain bacilli ... Factors For Active TB ... characteristic features Clinical ... latent Active TB
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
tuberculosis (MDR-TB ... Droplets that contain bacilli ... Factors For Active TB ... characteristic features Clinical ... latent Active TB
FASH Exam - POCUS - Pictorial summary of the focused assessment with sonography for human immunodeficiency
tuberculosis (HIV/ TB ... Focused #Assessment #Ultrasound
Tracheobronchial Smooth Muscle Atrophy and Separation (TB-SMAS) on Bronchoscopy

TB-SMAS in a chronic ICS user (association)

Dr. Udit
and Separation (TB-SMAS ... Bronchoscopy TB-SMAS ... #Bronchoscopy #clinical
Neurological Manifestations of Tuberculosis
Spinal Arachnoiditis & Polyradiculopathy:
 • Subacute onset of limb weakness, bladder/bowel dysfunction, muscle
Abscess: • More bacilli ... with pulmonary TB ... #differential #TB
On the left some diseases with a nodular pattern.
1. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis: ill defined centrilobular nodules.
2. Miliary
Miliary TB: random ... TB: Tree-in-bud ... patient with active TB ... #Clinical #Diagnosis
Nodular pattern(2)
1. Sarcoidosis: nodules with perilymphatic distribution, along fissures, adenopathy.
2. TB: Tree-in-bud appearance in a patient
TB: Tree-in-bud ... patient with active TB ... #Clinical #Radiology
Tuberculosis Testing

LATENT TB
• LTBI is diagnosed when an asymptomatic patient has a positive TST or IGRA
Testing LATENT TB ... result with no clinical ... IGRA/QuantiFERON-TB ... age ACTIVE TB ... Diagnosis #Workup #TB