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Clinical findings include back pain, paraparesis, kyphosis, sensory disturbances, and bowel and bladder dysfunction. [5] Signs of associated extraskeletal tuberculosis include cough, expectoration, swollen lymp nodes, diarrhea, and abdominal swelling. [5] The earliest and most common symptom is back pain, which worsens with activity.
Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. [1] Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is known as latent tuberculosis . [ 1 ] Around 10% of latent infections progress to active disease that, if left untreated, kill about half of those affected. [ 1 ]
Tuberculous pericarditis is a condition that accounts for 1-2% of presentations of tuberculosis outside of the lungs. [2] It is found in people of all ages and typically affects males more frequently than females. [4] Tuberculosis is also one of the leading causes of effusive pericarditis worldwide. [6]
Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. C.
In addition to tuberculosis, other possible causes of gibbus deformity include pathological diseases, hereditary and congenital conditions, and physical trauma to the spine that results in injury. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Gibbus deformity may result from the sail vertebrae associated with cretinism (the childhood form of hypothyroidism ...
Watching a movie can not only make people feel more bonded with others, but it can also increase viewers' pain tolerance, finds new research out of University of Oxford.. For the experiment, all ...
Tuberculous dactylitis affects the short tubular bones of the hands and feet in children. It often follows a mild course without fever and acute inflammatory signs as opposed to acute osteomyelitis. There may be a gap of a few months to 2 to 3 years from the time of initial infection to the point of diagnosis. [5] [6] [7]
Pain Hustlers is based on a journalistic account of opioid profiteering. The screenplay was written by Wells Tower, but the plot of the movie is heavily based on The Pain Hustlers, an exposé by ...