[Tuberculosis in perinatal stage. A challenge to the binomial care mother-son. Report of two cases].

Case report of 18-year old female patient with clinical signs of pulmonary tuberculosis during pregnancy at beginning of fourth month into term, with airway impairment, as evidenced by dry cough, fever and night sweats, as well as a 6 kg. weightloss. Twenty-two days after giving birth, the patient was hospitalized with high fever and deteriorated health conditions, requiring treatment in the intensive care unit due to complications such as severe malnutrition, septic shock, pulmonary abscess, pachypleuritis, empyema and bronchopleural fistula.