A case of pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as diffuse alveolar haemorrhage: Is there a role for anticardiolipin antibodies?

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Marruchella, Almerico ^a   Corpolongo, Angela ^a   Tommasi, Chiara ^a   Lauria, Francesco N ^a   Narciso, Pasquale ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; FEVER; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOCAPNIA; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT DURATION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; BLEEDING; BLOOD; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; PATHOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTICARDIOLIPIN; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 77649293008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-33     Document Type: Article

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