2009
DOI: 10.1007/s10353-009-0455-z
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Abdominal tuberculosis: experience with three cases from an Austrian centre

Abstract: Zusammenfassung. Grundlagen: Die Tuberkulose ist nach wie vor eine häufige Infektion in der dritten Welt. In industrialisierten Ländern ist diese Erkrankung relativ selten. Die peritoneale Tuberkulose ist schwierig zu diagnostizieren und kann mit intraabdominellen Malignomen verwechselt werden.Methodik: Wir beschreiben zwei Patienten mit peritonealer und einen Patienten mit Dickdarmtuberkulose.Ergebnisse: Drei Frauen wurden mit unspezifischen abdominellen Symptomen hospitalisiert. Bei zwei Patientinnen wurde r… Show more

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“…We report a rare case of pulmonary and abdominal TB presenting with a large stenosing gastrointestinal tumor in a previously healthy man from Upper Austria. Gastrointestinal TB is usually seen in immunocompromised patients or in migrants coming from Middle East, Asia or Africa [ 5 , 10 , 15 ]. However, our patient was neither immunocompromised nor born abroad.…”
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“…We report a rare case of pulmonary and abdominal TB presenting with a large stenosing gastrointestinal tumor in a previously healthy man from Upper Austria. Gastrointestinal TB is usually seen in immunocompromised patients or in migrants coming from Middle East, Asia or Africa [ 5 , 10 , 15 ]. However, our patient was neither immunocompromised nor born abroad.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The prevalence of extrapulmonary TB varies significantly by geographic region and ethnicity [2]. In countries with a low TB-incidence such as Austria extrapulmonary TB is usually seen in immunosuppressed patients or in foreign-born individuals from Middle Eastern, Asian or African countries [2][3][4][5]. Other risk factors for abdominal TB are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, malnutrition, diabetes mellitus, ma- lignancy, liver cirrhosis, peritoneal dialysis, and certain biologics including tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) inhibitors [6,7].…”
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“…Although some of the immunosuppressive agents may cause diarrhea themselves and other noninfectious causes must be considered, infectious diarrhea should be assumed until otherwise proven [13]. Many pathogens have been found in this patient population, including cytomegalovirus (CMV), EpsteinBarr virus, and rotavirus as well as Cryptosporidium parvum, among many others [22][23][24][25][26]. Nevertheless, in transplant recipients with diarrhea, CDAC should always be very high in the suspected diagnoses.…”
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