[Clinical picture of tuberculosis with concomitant hemoblastoses].
OBJECTIVE
To study clinical symptoms, course and diagnosis of tuberculosis in patients with hemoblastosis (HB).


METHODS
79 patients with tuberculosis and HB were examined. HB was represented by lymphoproliferative diseases (n = 61), acute leukemia (n = 4), chronic myeloproliferative diseases (n = 14).


RESULTS
Pulmonary tuberculosis was in 61 (77.2%) patients: in 46 with lymphoproliferative disease (LPD), 4 with acute leukemia (AL) and 11 with myeloproliferative disease(MPD). Generalized tuberculosis was detected in 8 (10.1%) patients (7 with LPD and 1 with MPD) and extrapulmonary tuberculosis was in 10 (12.7%) patients (8 with LPD and 2 with MPD). Infiltrative, disseminated and military tuberculosis of the lungs developed in 55.7, 6.6 and 1.6% HB patients.


CONCLUSIONS
Persistent fever in HB patients may point to developing tuberculosis infection. Fever syndrome and intoxication in patients with HB remission may serve a diagnostic marker of tuberculosis.
Iuldasheva
N E
NE
Karachunskiĭ
M A
MA
Pivnik
A V
AV
D000208:Acute Disease; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000150:complications*; D008232:Lymphoproliferative Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D009196:Myeloproliferative Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*