title: A Healthy Young Woman with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: an unfamiliar face of a familiar disease.
abstract: The presented case features a rare manifestation of pulmonary tuberculosis in a previously healthy young woman who had acute presentation of tuberculous pneumonia complicated by acute respiratory distress syndrome. In developing countries, mycobacterium tuberculosis is an important cause of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). TB can present as an acute process and should be included in the differential diagnosis of CAP. This case is special in its manifestation from several clinical perspectives, including the lack of an underlying medical condition or immune defect and the development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in non-miliary and non-disseminated tuberculosis. In conclusion, the diagnosis of TB should be considered in all patients who present with CAP in endemic regions.
authors.affiliation: Fereshte Sheybani, Assistant Professor in Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
authors.forename: Fereshte
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sheybani
authors.affiliation: Hamid Reza Naderi, Associate Professor in Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
authors.forename: Hamid Reza
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Naderi
authors.affiliation: Ahmad Bagheri Moghaddam, Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
authors.forename: Ahmad Bagheri
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Moghaddam
authors.affiliation: Bezat Amiri, Resident of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
authors.forename: Bezat
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Amiri
keywords: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS); Community-acquired pneumonia; Tuberculosis