Hepatic cytolysis and bicytopenia after 15 days of four-drug tuberculosis treatment in Senegal

Med Sante Trop. 2017 Aug 1;27(3):233-234. doi: 10.1684/mst.2017.0714.

Abstract

We report the case of a 31-year-old immunocompetent woman residing in Senegal, with localized microscopy-proved pulmonary tuberculosis, complicated by macrophage activation syndrome and associated with viral hepatitis B, identified due to hepatic cytolysis and a bicytopenia.

Keywords: Senegal; bicytopenia; hemophagocytosis; hepatic cytolysis; pulmonary tuberculosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antitubercular Agents / administration & dosage*
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Liver Diseases / etiology*
  • Liver Diseases / pathology*
  • Macrophage Activation Syndrome / etiology*
  • Senegal
  • Time Factors
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / complications*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / drug therapy*

Substances

  • Antitubercular Agents