title: Acute respiratory distress during paradoxical reaction to antituberculous therapy in an 8-month-old child.
abstract: Paradoxical reaction during antituberculosis treatment (ATT) is commonly seen as tuberculous lymphadenitis of peripheral lymph node, cerebral tuberculomas, pulmonary infiltrates, and pleural disease. This phenomenon is more commonly associated with extrapulmonary tuberculosis and disseminated tuberculosis. Respiratory distress, as presentation of paradoxical reaction, is rare. We report an 8-month-old child with primary progressive tuberculosis without mediastinal adenopathy, who developed paradoxical reaction with extensive mediastinal adenopathy within 15 days of ATT and presented with severe respiratory distress. The child responded to short course of high-dose steroids.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric TB Clinic, B. J. Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Ira
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: Sujeet
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chilkar
authors.forename: Manisha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Patil
authors.forename: Uma
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ali