Open AccessPott Disease: When Lumbar Pain is Not Innocent
Author(s) -
Evgenia Kalamara,
Evangelos T Ballas,
Guergana Petrova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advances in respiratory medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 2543-6031
pISSN - 2451-4934
DOI - 10.5603/arm.a2020.0154
Subject(s) - medicine , spondylitis , tuberculosis , disease , presentation (obstetrics) , lumbar , back pain , lumbar spine , low back pain , rare disease , case presentation , surgery , pathology , alternative medicine , ankylosing spondylitis
Tuberculosis is a mycobacterial infection that can affect the lungs as well as other organs. The involvement of the spine, although rare, can have major consequences if not diagnosed and treated in a timely and effective manner, such as residual deformities and neurological deficits. On occasion, the atypical presentation of tuberculous spondylitis may cause a delay in treatment and therefore lead to less favorable outcomes. In this article, we present a rare case of progressed tuberculous infection involving the respiratory and musculoskeletal system in a 36-year-old patient whose main complaints were non-specific and mild, and started only two weeks before his diagnosis, despite the advanced disease.