The tuberculosis rate among U.S. patients with kidney failure from 2010 to 2021was 10-fold higher than that of the general ...

Tuberculosis spreads through germs released when a person with TB in their lungs coughs, speaks or sings. These bacteria can ...

Right nephrectomy was done. Histopathologically proved it to be tuberculous kidney. Extrapulmonary manifestations of tuberculosis are widespread with one of the major systems of involvement being the ...

Risk factors associated with extrapulmonary TB among US veterans include non-Hispanic Black race, diabetes, HIV infection, and severe kidney disease.

This patient had received complete ATT for pulmonary tuberculosis. Despite this, he developed extensive renal disease. Therefore, in patients with a history of treated primary tuberculosis, physicians ...

The most common underlying co-morbidities were pre-existing chronic kidney disease, diabetes mellitus, and malignancy. Within six months after anti-TB treatment, there was a continuous probability ...

Survivors of TB may benefit from improved linkage to care, with post-treatment mortality associated with HIV, alcohol use, diabetes, and end-stage kidney disease.

They go on to propose chemoprophylaxis with isoniazid or three months of rifampicin and isoniazid, with above 60% effectiveness at preventing subsequent tuberculosis. Guidelines at a large renal ...

Tuberculosis is categorized as an airborne infection that usually attacks the lungs, but health experts said that the infection can also impact any part of the body including the kidney ...

[11] Because the elderly are more vulnerable to drug-induced AKI and usually have poor renal recovery, [14,15] AKI during anti-TB treatment may be more common and serious in Taiwan, where more ...