[Tuberculosis and systemic diseases: study of 8 Senegalese cases].
METHODS
A retrospective study (2000-2007) of the tuberculosis observations during systemic diseases was conducted in the service of Internal Medicine of hospital Aristide Le Dantec of Dakar.


RESULTS
8 (4 men and 4 women) has been received. The mean age was 54.5 years. The localization of tuberculosis was lung (n=8) with pleurisy (n=2), ganglionic (n=1), vertebral (n=1) and an abscess of the psoas (n=1). The diagnosis of tuberculosis had been carried with the bacteriological analysis of the expectorations (n=7), the histology (n=1). The systemic diseases was: rheumatoid arthritis and Sjögren's syndrome (n=3), primary Sjögren's syndrome (n=4), autoimmune thrombopenia (n=1). The diagnosis of systemic diseases was previous to that of tuberculosis in 7 cases and concomitant in 1 cases. Under chemotherapy and corticosteroid therapy, the evolution was favorable in 6 patients.


CONCLUSIONS
our study confirms the frequently character spread by the tuberculosis in patients affected by systemic diseases. This association enhances diagnostic and therapeutic problems.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications*; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012675:Senegal; D012859:Sjogren's Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D013921:Thrombocytopenia / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis