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Front Neurol
January 2025
Department of Radiology, Hangzhou Red Cross Hospital, Hangzhou, China.
Objective: Acute cerebral infarction is a common complication of intracranial tuberculosis (TB), causing irreversible damage to brain tissue and significantly affecting patient prognosis. This study aims to explore the risk factors associated with acute cerebral infarction in patients with intracranial tuberculosis.
Methods: We retrospectively analyzed data from eligible intracranial TB patients treated at our hospital between January 2020 and March 2023.
BMJ Case Rep
January 2025
Neurology Department, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
A woman in her 30s presented with sudden onset right-sided weakness, speech difficulties and transient loss of consciousness. She had a medical history of migraine, hypothyroidism and cervical lymphadenopathy. On examination, her National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score was 8 due to dense right-sided hemiparesis.
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January 2025
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
is a fungal pathogen that can cause lethal disease in immunocompromised patients. Immunocompetent host immune responses, such as formation of pulmonary granulomas, control the infection and prevent disseminated disease. Little is known about the immunological conditions establishing the latent infection granuloma in the lungs.
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December 2024
Department of Internal Medicine, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, IND.
Intramedullary spinal tuberculomas constitute a small percentage of spinal tuberculosis. These, in combination with brain tuberculomas, are an uncommon manifestation of central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis. This report details a unique case of a 32-year-old retroviral disease-positive male who presented with a two-month history of symmetrical quadriparesis and recent seizures.
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December 2024
Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Background: Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) accounts for 85% of all reported tuberculosis cases globally. Extrapulmonary involvement can occur in isolation or along with a pulmonary focus as in the case of patients with disseminated tuberculosis (TB). EPTB can occur through hematogenous, lymphatic, or localized bacillary dissemination from a primary source, such as PTB and affects the brain, eye, mouth, tongue, lymph nodes of neck, spine, bones, muscles, skin, pleura, pericardium, gastrointestinal, peritoneum and the genitourinary system as primary and/or disseminated disease.
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