Tabarsi Payam, Mohammad Nourizadeh Amir, Pourabdollah Tootkaboni Mihan, Askari Elham
Clinical Tuberculosis and Epidemiology Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
J Clin Tuberc Other Mycobact Dis. 2023 May;31:100357. doi: 10.1016/j.jctube.2023.100357. Epub 2023 Mar 1.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruptions in TB services across the globe. Like many other countries, TB case notifications decreased during the pandemic in Iran. In this paper, we describe two cases of concomitant COVID-19 and TB infection whose diagnosis of pulmonary TB was delayed amid the pandemic. We depict how atypical imaging findings may guide physicians to pulmonary TB diagnosis and discuss strategies to maximize TB case detection.
新冠疫情在全球范围内给结核病服务带来了重大干扰。与许多其他国家一样，伊朗在疫情期间结核病病例通报数量有所下降。在本文中，我们描述了两例新冠病毒与结核感染并存的病例，在疫情期间这两例肺结核的诊断被延迟。我们描述了非典型影像学表现如何指导医生诊断肺结核，并讨论了最大限度发现结核病病例的策略。
