Gut Check: Gastrointestinal Tuberculosis as a Potential Mimic of Another Disease.

Rhett L Harmon, Mark Baniqued, Soonwook Hong, Hongying Tan, Thomas Kovacs, Shaun Chandna

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Article in Cureus, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Rhett L HarmonInternal Medicine, Olive View University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Sylmar, USA.

Mark BaniquedInternal Medicine, Olive View University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Sylmar, USA.

Soonwook HongGastroenterology, University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA.

Hongying TanPathology, Olive View University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Sylmar, USA.

Thomas KovacsGastroenterology, Olive View University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Sylmar, USA.

Shaun ChandnaGastroenterology, Olive View University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Sylmar, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gastrointestinal tuberculosis (GI TB) is an uncommon form of extrapulmonary TB (EPTB). While it is more prevalent in endemic regions, its incidence is rising in developed countries due to factors such as immigration, HIV infection, and immunosuppressive therapy. We present a case of a 34-year-old woman with abdominal pain, nausea, and unintentional weight loss who was found to have imaging evidence of terminal ileal and colonic wall thickening, peritoneal thickening, and ascites, and was ultimately diagnosed with gastrointestinal TB after an endoscopic biopsy demonstrated noncaseating granulomatous ileitis, a cecal ulcer, and a positive GeneXpert

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ascitesextrapulmonary tuberculosisgastrointestinal tuberculosisinflammatory bowel diseaseterminal ileitis

Identifiers

PMID41732652

DOI10.7759/cureus.102111

PMCPMC12924782

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