Open AccessRare congenital hearth disease as a cause of tuberculosis activation
Author(s) -
M Radović,
Lidija Ristić,
Ivana Stanković,
Dejan Petrović
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
medicinski pregled
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1820-7383
pISSN - 0025-8105
DOI - 10.2298/mpns1008565r
Subject(s) - medicine , shunt (medical) , tetralogy of fallot , tuberculosis , heart disease , surgery , pediatrics , cardiology , pathology
Patients with congenital cyanotic heart defects and the left-to-right shunt are at a three times higher risk of getting tuberculosis than acyanotic ones. No TB cases have been recorded in adult patients with the right-to-left shunt having cyanosis since their birth.
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