ArticleCureus2021
Intestinal Tuberculosis: A Diagnostic Challenge.
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- Nomogram model for prediction of pulmonary tuberculosis patients with intestinal tuberculosis.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Amoebic enteritis: A clinicopathological analysis of 14 cases and literature review.Parasites, hosts and diseases · 2025Review
- Pulmonary and intestinal tuberculosis with COVID-19 complicated with fluidopneumothorax and colovesical fistula: The importance of diagnosis complexity in line with clinical setting.Radiology case reports · 2024Article
- Intestinal tuberculosis with small bowel stricture and hemorrhage as the predominant manifestation: Three case reports.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2024Article
- Intestinal tuberculosis masquerading as carcinoma colon: a case report of diagnostic quandary in low-resource setting.Journal of surgical case reports · 2022Article
- A Rare Case of Intestinal Tuberculosis with Chronic Partial Small Bowel Obstruction in a 37-Year-Old Ethiopian Man.International medical case reports journal · 2022Article
- Ileocaecal Tuberculosis Presenting with Massive Hematochezia: A Rare Clinical Manifestation.Case reports in gastrointestinal medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
Diagnosing intestinal tuberculosis (TB) with uncommon clinical manifestations is often challenging. Here, we report a case of an alcoholic patient who presented with vague symptoms and was later diagnosed with intestinal TB. This patient experienced multiorgan failure causing hemodynamic instability requiring ionotropic support; acute hypoxic respiratory failure managed with non-invasive positive pressure ventilation, hepatic failure, transudative peritoneal effusion, and transudative pleural effusion. These conditions clouded our judgment to pursue colonoscopy for a definite diagnosis and delayed the anti-tuberculosis treatment. When intestinal tuberculosis TB is suspected, the differential diagnosis must be established with other gastrointestinal involving diseases, including mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) and Crohn's disease (CD). MAC can show overlapping features with intestinal TB or coexist with it; Acid-fast stain and tissue culture are the key tests to differentiate these two. In the presence of diagnostic uncertainty between intestinal TB and CD, a therapeutic trial with anti-tuberculous therapy may be warranted.
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