Pleural effusions in a patient with tuberculosis on dialysis

TY - JOUR

T1 - Pleural effusions in a patient with tuberculosis on dialysis

AU - Ip, Hugh

AU - Schomberg, Lucy Ellen Eyre

AU - Ahmed, Liju

PY - 2013/8/10

Y1 - 2013/8/10

N2 - A 63-year-old Ghanaian woman developed dyspnoea in the renal unit in June, 2012. She was on haemodialysis for hypertensive nephropathy (started Feb, 2011). Miliary tuberculosis had been diagnosed in May, 2012, by induced sputum, yielding a fully sensitive culture-positive organism (initially smear negative). She had been living in the UK for 30 years, with no tuberculosis contacts. She was stable on (and adherent to) rifampicin 900 mg, isoniazid 900 mg, pyrazinamide 2 g, and moxifloxacin 400 mg (three times per week) for 6·5 weeks.

AB - A 63-year-old Ghanaian woman developed dyspnoea in the renal unit in June, 2012. She was on haemodialysis for hypertensive nephropathy (started Feb, 2011). Miliary tuberculosis had been diagnosed in May, 2012, by induced sputum, yielding a fully sensitive culture-positive organism (initially smear negative). She had been living in the UK for 30 years, with no tuberculosis contacts. She was stable on (and adherent to) rifampicin 900 mg, isoniazid 900 mg, pyrazinamide 2 g, and moxifloxacin 400 mg (three times per week) for 6·5 weeks.

KW - CHYLOTHORAX

U2 - 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61643-8

DO - 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61643-8

M3 - Editorial

SN - 0140-6736

VL - 382

SP - 570

EP - 570

JO - Lancet

JF - Lancet

IS - 9891

ER -