Clinical Case Database / Category: Clinical Care
Tuberculosis
Publication details
Dr Veronica LC White MD FRCP
Foundation Years Journal, volume 5, issue 9, p.81 (123Doc Education, London, October 2011)
Abstract
A 26 year old woman presents to her GP on several occasions over a 3 month period with a dry cough and non-specific chest pains. She is given two courses of antibiotics, but has no improvement. Her GP sends for a CXR and the duty radiologist asks the medical team to review the patient. You review her on the AAU.
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Authors
Dr Veronica LC White MD FRCP
Consultant Respiratory Physician,
Barts and the London, NHS Trust
References
1. Health Protection Agency, Tuberculosis. www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/InfectiousDiseases/InfectionsAZ/Tuberculosis
2. National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions. Tuberculosis: clinical diagnosis and management of tuberculosis, and measures for its prevention and control. London: Royal College of Physicians, 2006.
3. Davies PDO (Ed). Clinical Tuberculosis, 3rd Edition 2003. London UK, Arnold.
4. Subcommittee of the Joint Tuberculosis Committee of the British Thoracic Society. Management of Opportunist Mycobacterial Infections: Joint Tuberculosis Committee Guidelines 1999. Thorax 2000, Vol.55,3:210-218.
5. British National Formulary, 2010. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal Pharmaceutical Society
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