Disease relevance of Tuberculosis, Miliary

• A 77-year-old woman with a seropositive nodular rheumatoid arthritis and vasculitis, who was treated with high doses of corticosteroids and intravenous cyclophosphamide, developed miliary tuberculosis that was heralded by a tenosynovitis in her right wrist [1].
• In the case of miliary tuberculosis and far advanced pulmonary tuberculosis treated with antituberculous drugs, the circulating ICAM-1 concentrations were gradually decreased to correspond with improvement of clinical symptoms and chest X-ray findings [2].
• We report treatment of a 24-year-old man with membranous glomerulonephritis (MGN) who developed a solitary choroidal tuberculoma in association with miliary tuberculosis during steroid therapy [3].
• C reactive protein was measured serially with a sensitive radioimmunoassay in sera from 31 children with bacterial meningitis, 15 with tuberculous meningitis (6 with miliary tuberculosis), and 28 with viral meningitis [4].

High impact information on Tuberculosis, Miliary

• A 35 year old black Somalian woman with miliary tuberculosis developed hepatotoxicity after a few days of treatment with isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol [5].
• Miliary tuberculosis after biological therapy for rheumatoid arthritis [6].
• Uraemia, psychosis, young patient: an uncommon link. Urinary tract and miliary tuberculosis [7].
• Streptomycin dose requirements were determined in an 83-year-old man with renal impairment who was being treated for miliary tuberculosis [8].
• Miliary tuberculosis due to intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin therapy [9].

Chemical compound and disease context of Tuberculosis, Miliary

• In two patients with miliary tuberculosis the diagnosis was first suggested with CT and then proven by histology in both and bacteriology in one case: Adrenal involvement was demonstrated with unilateral and bilateral enlargement, respectively [10].
• We report a case of miliary tuberculosis in a pregnant Jamaican woman in whom foetal exposure to ethambutol has been assessed [11].
• After 5 months of steroid therapy, he developed miliary tuberculosis and a solitary choroidal mass [3].
• A 27-year-old woman diagnosed with miliary tuberculosis (TB) began to receive combined anti-TB treatment including INH, ethambutol, rifampicin and pyrazinamide on the second day of hospitalization [12].
• Immunostimulatory effect of levamisole in miliary tuberculosis [13].

Anatomical context of Tuberculosis, Miliary

• Evaluation of the polymerase chain reaction in the diagnosis of miliary tuberculosis in bone marrow smear [14].

Gene context of Tuberculosis, Miliary

• Patients with miliary tuberculosis had extremely high levels of circulating OPN, IFN-gamma and IL-18 [15].
• Very recently 70 cases of tuberculosis were reported from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System. We report a case of pulmonary miliary tuberculosis in a RA patient treated with TNF-alpha blockade [16].
• Elevated concentrations of circulating ICAM-1 in far advanced and miliary tuberculosis [2].
• SLE was seen in 6 of the patients with miliary tuberculosis [17].
• Complex febrile convulsions were the initial clinical manifestation of miliary tuberculosis in a 4-year-old immigrant girl [18].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Tuberculosis, Miliary

• The case of a patient who developed miliary tuberculosis secondary to intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy for bladder carcinoma is described [19].
• A report is presented on the first case of miliary tuberculosis in a group of 84 kidney transplant recipients treated in the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, until March 1976 [20].

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