Hypertension Related Co-Morbidities and Complications in Women of Sub-Saharan Africa: A Brief Review

TM Hahka, RA Slotkowski, A Akbar… - Circulation …, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
Hypertension is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease in women, and sub-Saharan
African (SSA) countries have some of the highest rates of hypertension in the world …

[HTML][HTML] Tuberculosis and COVID-19 in the elderly: factors driving a higher burden of disease

A Allué-Guardia, JB Torrelles, A Sigal - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) and SARS-CoV-2 are both infections that can lead to
severe disease in the lower lung. However, these two infections are caused by very different …

Outdoor environmental exposome and the burden of tuberculosis: Findings from nearly two million adults in northwestern China

JX Li, Q Luan, B Li, SC Dharmage, J Heinrich… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
We simultaneously assessed the associations for a range of outdoor environmental
exposures with prevalent tuberculosis (TB) cases in a population-based health program with …

[HTML][HTML] Interstitial Lung Disease in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Systemic Sclerosis: How Can We Manage the Challenge?

P Richter, A Cardoneanu, N Dima, I Bratoiu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a severe and frequent manifestation of connective tissue
diseases (CTD). Due to its debilitating potential, it requires serious evaluation and treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Comments and Illustrations of Ultrasound Findings in Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Manifestations

K Möller, A Löwe, C Jenssen, N Chaubal, H Gottschall… - Diagnostics, 2024 - mdpi.com
This review describes the appearance of extrapulmonary tuberculosis manifestations in
comprehensive and multiparametric ultrasound imaging. The aim is to increase awareness …

Cardiac Tuberculoma Presenting as Sudden Cardiac Death in an Immunocompetent Young Man: A Case Report and Literature Review

AS Lema - Case Reports in Cardiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis is one of several preventable and curable communicable diseases that is a
major cause of morbidity and one of the top ten causes of death worldwide. Cardiac …

[HTML][HTML] Disseminated miliary and intestinal tuberculosis mimicking inflammatory bowel disease

D Tran, K Patel, A Ashfaq, B Lyons - Cureus, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The hematogenous dissemination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) is commonly via the
pulmonary system. Less commonly, ingestion of M. tb can lead to primary intestinal …

Latent tuberculosis infection and incident cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular death

IM Magodoro, KA Wilkinson, B Claggett, A Aluoch… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Active tuberculosis may heighten the risk of incident cardiovascular morbidity and premature
mortality, whereas whether latent TB infection (LTBI) recapitulates these adverse outcomes …

Cardiac Tuberculosis: A Case Series from Ethiopia, Italy, and Uganda and a Literature Review.

S Cotugno, G Guido, J Ictho, P Lochoro… - The American Journal …, 2024 - europepmc.org
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is estimated to account for up to 20% of active cases of TB
disease, but its prevalence is difficult to ascertain because of the difficulty of diagnosis …

Effect of prior tuberculosis on cardiovascular status in perinatally HIV-1-infected adolescents.

IM Magodoro, CE Guerrero-Chalela, L Myer, J Jao… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Whether, and how, co-occurring HIV-1 infection (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) impact
cardiovascular status, especially in adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV (APHIV), have …