A Scarce Presentation of <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i>, Case Report

Abstract

Here, we report a case of 24-year-old female who experienced fever, weight loss, and headache by the termination of her pregnancy after 24 weeks. She was admitted due to multiple generalized tonic clonic (GTC) seizures and loss of consciousness. Her lab data and histological findings were insignificant as well as negative mycobacterium culture. Her brain MRI detected multiple enhanced brain lesions on T2 weighted images. Overall, she went under empiric anti-TB treatment for a year and had a complete recovery. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of brain tuberculoma with negative histological findings and brain tissue culture who responded to an empiric anti-TB regimen.

Exploring Neuropsychiatric Interphase in Perinatal Period – A Case Series

“…Studies regarding pregnant women reported that the risk of TB infection and its related post-partum complications are twice compared to other women. In fact, one study claimed that extra-pulmonary TB disease consisted 90% of post-partum tuberculosis [10]. Psychiatric symptoms like hallucination, psychosis, altered mental status are reported in case with intracranial tuberculosis along with usual symptoms like headache, seizure [11].…”