Managing spondylitis tuberculosis in a patient with underlying diabetes and hypothyroidism: A case report.

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the highest Asia's health problems. Spondylitis TB in diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypothyroidism patients is a rare case of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. However, there is a lack of therapeutic guidelines to treat spondylitis TB, particularly with type 2 DM (T2DM) and hypothyroidism as comorbidities.

Severe COVID-19 infection in a kidney transplant recipient treated with lopinavir/ritonavir, hydroxychloroquine and dexamethasone.

Severe COVID-19 infection management for a recipient of kidney transplant has debatable prognosis and treatment. We described the case of a COVID-19 infected 70 year old female, previously had renal transplantation in 2017. The patient took immunosuppressive agents as routine drugs for transplant recipient status and received lopinavir/ritonavir, hydroxychloroquine, and dexamethasone daily at the hospitalization.