Tuberculous Pneumonia as a primary cause of respiratory failure-report of two cases.
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ABSTRACT
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the treatable diseases rarely causing Acute Respiratory Failure (ARF). Hypoxic respiratory failure is often fatal in miliary tuberculosis and acute tuberculous bronchopneumonia. We describe two patients of tuberculous pneumonia with ARF who were successfully treated with early appropriate anti-tuberculosis therapy.
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English
Year:
2010
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