Epidemiology of Latent Tuberculosis in Moroccan Healthcare Workers: Prevalence Patterns and Predisposing Factors.

Background: Among occupational hazards in healthcare settings, latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) ranks as a major concern, particularly threatening healthcare workers (HCWs) in nations grappling with intermediate to high tuberculosis (TB) rates. Our study was conducted in Morocco, a country characterized by widespread Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination and a moderate TB burden of 93 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 2022. We examined both the prevalence of LTBI among Moroccan HCWs and its various risk factors.

Assessment of the Association of Chlamydia e pneumoniae Infection with Lung Cancer in a Moroccan Patients' Cohort.

Background: Chlamydia pneumoniae (C. pneumoniae) is a respiratory pathogen associated with chronic inflammatory and its detection in human lung cancer suggests its involvement in cancerogenesis. Our study aimed to evaluate the association between C.

Right Intraventricular Metastasis of Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma Detected on 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography.

Cardiac metastasis from lung cancer is rare. They are clinically silent and often diagnosed only postmortem. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides interesting information about the tissue characterization and vascularization of the tumor.

[IManagement of patients with relapsed primary naso-sinusal tuberculosis].

Primary naso-sinusal tuberculosis (TB) is a relatively rare or exceptional disorder characterized by polymorphic or non-specific clinical manifestation. Diagnosis is based on anatomo-pathological examination and mycobacteriology test of biopsy specimen. Predictor of good outcome is early conventional anti-tuberculous antibiotic therapy.

Typical presentation of pulmonary lepidic adenocarcinoma: a rare case report.

Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC) is a rare subtype of adenocarcinoma of lung with distinct features and distinctive characteristics. It accounts approximately for 4% of lung cancers. In the following study we report a rare observation of a 50 years old female with a clinical, radiological and histological presentation, which is typical of an invasive mucinous lepidic adenocarcinoma formerly named BAC.

Tuberculosis and impaired IL-23-dependent IFN-γ immunity in humans homozygous for a common missense variant.

Inherited IL-12Rβ1 and TYK2 deficiencies impair both IL-12- and IL-23-dependent IFN-γ immunity and are rare monogenic causes of tuberculosis, each found in less than 1/600,000 individuals. We show that homozygosity for the common P1104A allele, which is found in about 1/600 Europeans and between 1/1000 and 1/10,000 individuals in regions other than East Asia, is more frequent in a cohort of patients with tuberculosis from endemic areas than in ethnicity-adjusted controls ( = 8.37 × 10; odds ratio, 89.

[Swelling of the pectoralis muscle revealing isolated muscular tuberculosis].

Soft tissue tuberculosis is one of the rare forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Furthermore, isolated muscular tuberculosis is exceptional. We here report the original case of a young immunocompetent patient with isolated muscular tuberculosis involving major pectoralis muscle.

[A rare cause of posterior mediastinal tumors: mediastinal hydatid cyst].

Mediastinal hydatid cyst is extremely rare even in endemic areas, representing 0-4% of all hydatid cyst locations. We report the case of a 50-year old patient admitted to our Department with a mass in the left dorsal paraspinal region; chest X-ray showed posterior left basal opacity. Chest CT scan showed posterior mediastinal mass located in the left costovertebral gutter extending from D9 to D11.

[Severe pulmonary involvement in hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis (HUV)].

Pulmonary involvement in hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis (HUV) or Mac Duffie syndrome is extremely rare with a poor prognosis. We report the case of a 55-year-old female patient treated for HUV over a period of 20 years. The diagnosis was confirmed on the basis of urticarial lesions, ocular inflammation, positive C1q-p test by immunodiffusion, with low rate of C1q.

[Tuberculous pyopneumothorax: about 18 cases].

Tuberculous pyopneumothorax is a rare but serious complication of evolutive pulmonary tuberculosis. We report a series of 18 cases with tuberculous pyopneumothorax admitted to the Pneumo-Phthisiology Department of the Mohammed V Military Teaching Hospital in Rabat between January 2005 and December 2009. Our study included 15 men and 3 women, the average age was 35 ± 7 years.

A case of Kartagener syndrome with rhinolalia clausa.

Kartagener syndrome is an autosomal recessive genetic ciliary disorder comprising of a classic triad of sinusitis, situs inversus and bronchiectasis. It's the one of primary ciliary dyskinesia disorders with manifestations present from childhood. Most patients of PCD have situs inversus.