Volume : 7, Issue : 8, August - 2018

AN UNUSUAL CASE OF MYOCARDIAL TUBERCULOSIS ALONGWITH INVOLVEMENT OF KIDNEYS

Abhishek Verma, Nidhi P. A. Barla, A. K. Sinha, M. A. Ansari

Abstract :

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Pulmonary tuberculosis is one of the commonest infectious disease encountered in clinical practice and more so in the developing countries. Despite of effectiveness of treatment,it is still a major cause of death. Tuberculosis can effect almost every organ of the body with maximum cases in the lungs accounting to 80%[1]. It is seen that extrapulmonary site have increased morbidity and mortality. Cardiovascular involvement is rare about 1-2%[2] and that too seen usually in the pericardium.The involvement of myocardium is even rarer. Here is a case of autopsy finding in 47 years old female showing myocardial involvement due to tuberculosis. Tubercular findings were also found in the bilateral kidneys.<o:p></o:p></span></p>