Open AccessGastric Tuberculosis
Author(s) -
Naresh Kumar Seetlani,
Imran Khalid,
Qurat Ul Ain Hafeez,
Asif Ali,
Pyar Fazil,
Bareeha Sultan,
Sulhera Khan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
jcpsp
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1681-7168
pISSN - 1022-386X
DOI - 10.29271/jcpsp.2019.06.s20
Subject(s) - medicine , epigastric pain , vomiting , weight loss , tuberculosis , gastric outlet obstruction , histopathology , surgery , endoscopy , nausea , bleed , gastroenterology , pathology , obesity
Gastric tuberculosis is a very rare disease posing a diagnostic challenge to physicians, pathologists and radiologists. It usually occurs in females aged 25 to 45 years. Symptoms include epigastric pain, vomiting, fever, weight loss, upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleed and gastric outlet obstruction. High index of suspicion and endoscopic or endoscopic ultrasound guided biopsies may help in making an early diagnosis, particularly in patients with non-healing gastric ulcers. We report a case of gastric tuberculosis in a 55-year male, who presented with persistent vomiting, epigastric pain and significant weight loss. His upper GI endoscopy finding with histopathology results favoured the diagnosis of gastric tuberculosis. He was successfully treated with antituberculous regimen.