A Curious Case of Black Limb in Tuberculosis

Pournami Balasundaran; Heyma Krishna Manoharan; Jitendra Kishore Bhargava; Veerendra Arya; Gowtham Natarajan

doi:10.4103/jgid.jgid_94_23

A Curious Case of Black Limb in Tuberculosis

J Glob Infect Dis. 2023 Aug 11;16(1):36-38. doi: 10.4103/jgid.jgid_94_23. eCollection 2024 Jan-Mar.

Authors

Pournami Balasundaran¹, Heyma Krishna Manoharan¹, Jitendra Kishore Bhargava¹, Veerendra Arya¹, Gowtham Natarajan¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, School of Excellence in Pulmonary Medicine, NSCB Medical College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Abstract

With a global burden of 10 million new cases per year, tuberculosis (TB) is a major health problem in developing countries like India, with an incidence of 2.69 million. With its varied presentations and huge infected numbers, TB continues to remain a dilemma to physicians. The incidence of peripheral gangrene in TB has been rarely reported. Presentation is mostly in the form of symmetrical peripheral gangrene related to sepsis and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Here, we present a case of 26-year-old male who presented as tubercular pyopneumothorax with peripheral gangrene involving a single limb.

Keywords: D-dimer; disseminated intravascular coagulation; gangrene; tuberculosis; vasculitis.

Publication types

Case Reports