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The clinical features, radiological and therapeutic response of 46 cases of abdominal tuberculosis (AT) seen at a university hospital are presented. Diagnosis was anatomopathologic in 39 cases (85%) and clinical with response to tuberculostatic in 7 cases (15%). Most of the patients did not have history nor exposition to tuberculosis. Both sexes were similar affected, mean age 43 years old, between 11 and 79. Clinical manifestations were no specific, the most frequent fever (65%), abdominal pain (63%) and constitutional syndrome with asthenia, anorexia and weight loss (63%). Thorax radiograph was normal in 50% and PPD negative in 42%, so in 10% of patients both tests were negative. More than half of the patients had other disease. 82% of patients were cured with tuberculostatic. 18% of patients died. AT seen now is different from classic descriptions. Is not a complication of pulmonary tuberculosis (PT) as it was to be in the past. Thinking in AT only in patients with PT make most patients lead without diagnosis.
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PMID:[Abdominal tuberculosis today. A review of 46 cases]. 163 55

It is presented the clinical case of a man 60 years old, heterosexual, suffering from chronic bronchopathy from old date, inveterate smoker, with previous diskotomy, herniotomy, who presents a symptomatology characterized from recurrent fever, productive cough, dyspnea, asthenia and headache for 6 month. He was admitted to hospital for fever and for a sensory slightly obnubilated. A series of investigations for typhus fever, cytomegalovirus, all with negative results were performed. He resulted negative also to the test to PPD as well as to markers of B and C hepatitis and the test for HIV. The study of the principal cancer markers also gave negative results, while the blood smears displayed leukopenia with monocytosis. The magnetic nuclear resonance of the brain showed the presence of multiple lesions of the brain and along the meninges: the examination of the liquor underlines the presence of the Cryptococcus neoformans, making to set the diagnostic of cryptococcal meningitis. The immunological study showed low values of CD4 in presence of normal values of CD8 and of a normal natural killer function. The exitus happened at 64th day. The interest of the case consists in the fact that in the medical Italian literature, unlike the international one, are not described cases of cryptococcal meningitis in patients not infected by HIV.
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PMID:[A rare case of cryptococcal meningitis unrelated to AIDS]. 1070 79