[Tuberculosis, mycobacterium infection and hairy cell leukemia].

Objectives: Diagnosis of tuberculosis and/or mycobacteria infection is particularly difficult in immunocompromised patients.

Patients And Methods: We examined the clinical presentation, means of diagnosis, treatment and outcome of tuberculosis in a retrospective study of 6 patients among 75 with hairy cell leukemia diagnosed from 1982 to 1995.

Results: Hearlding symptoms of tuberculosis diagnosis were: fever (6/6), weight loss (4/6), pleural effusion (1/6), superficial adenopathy (1/6), persistence of cytopenia or splenomegaly during the treatment of hairy cell leukemia.

[Bilateral Torulopsis glabrata pneumonia].

In a 48-year old male patient hospitalized for evaluation of fatigue with non-productive cough and dyspnoea, standard radiography and computerized tomography of the chest showed nodular opacities in both lung apices. Examination of intrabronchial specimens revealed mycelial filaments, and Torulopsis glabrata grew in culture. Under antifungal treatment the clinical signs rapidly improved and the radiological abnormalities disappeared more slowly, which confirmed the diagnosis of T.