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Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) disease is a major global health problem affecting 10.6 million people worldwide, and India alone contributes 28% to this burden. Pancreatic TB is considered an extremely rare entity which closely mimics pancreatic carcinoma.
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September 2024
Internal Medicine Department, University Hospital FB, Monastir, Tunisia.
Background: Even though anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) are frequently linked to ANCA associated vasculitis (AAV), it's important to understand that other illnesses, including lung diseases, can also manifest as ANCA positivity. Finding the incriminated pathology might be difficult.
Aim: To report four ANCA-associated cases with a diagnosis problem.
Monaldi Arch Chest Dis
November 2023
Department of TB and Respiratory Disease, National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease, New Delhi.
COPD is a chronic respiratory disease characterized by systemic inflammation caused primarily by tobacco use, and it is associated with an increased susceptibility to respiratory infections, both viral and bacterial, which are responsible for acute COPD exacerbations (AECOPD). Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common co-morbidities in COPD patients. In our study, we attempted to detect previously undiagnosed diabetes in AECOPD patients who presented to our Institute.
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July 2023
Department of General Medicine, Government Doon Medical College, Dehradun 248001, India.
Tuberculosis (TB) affects a third of the global population, and a large population of infected individuals still remain undiagnosed-making the visible burden only the tip of the iceberg. The detection of tuberculosis in close-proximity patients is one of the key priorities for attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of TB elimination by 2030. With the current battery of screening tests failing to cover this need, the authors of this paper examined a simple and inexpensive point-of-care breath analyzer (TSI-3000(I)), which is based on detecting the volatile organic compounds that are emitted from infected cells and released in exhaled breath as a screening tool for the detection of TB.
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November 2022
Department of Microbiology, Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre, Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, Pune, India.
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