scholarly journals Intestinal Tuberculosis and Crohns Disease

2015 ◽  
Vol 05 (08) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intestinal Tuberculosis ◽  
Crohns Disease

Defining ‘Satisfactory Response’ to Therapy in Abdominal Tuberculosis: A Work in Progress

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vishal Sharma ◽  
Harjeet Singh ◽  
Harshal S. Mandavdhare
Keyword(s):  
Intestinal Tuberculosis ◽  
Abdominal Tuberculosis ◽  
Multidrug Resistant ◽  
Mucosal Healing ◽  
Response To Therapy ◽  
Satisfactory Response ◽  
Reactive Protein ◽  
Resistant Tuberculosis ◽  
Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis ◽  
Low Sensitivity

Abdominal tuberculosis is difficult to diagnose due to low sensitivity of microbiological tests and the low histological yield. Satisfactory response to therapy has long been used a criteria for the diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis. However, the appropriate definitions of response to therapy in abdominal tuberculosis have remained unclear. Recent evidence suggests that mucosal healing of ulcers at the end of therapy or at two months (early mucosal response) is a helpful criteria of response to therapy. This also helps in exclusion of multidrug resistant tuberculosis and alternative diagnosis like Crohn’s disease. Further limited literature suggests the use of some biomarkers like C-reactive protein in the follow-up of patients with peritoneal or intestinal tuberculosis.

Diagnostic difficulties with intestinal tuberculosis

2006 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 1118-1120
Author(s):  
Vui Heng Chong ◽  
Nallathamby Rajendran
Keyword(s):  
Intestinal Tuberculosis ◽  
Diagnostic Difficulties

scholarly journals Evaluation of intestinal tuberculosis by multi-slice computed tomography enterography

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Zhao ◽  
Min-Yi Cui ◽  
Tao Chan ◽  
Ren Mao ◽  
Yanji Luo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
Intestinal Tuberculosis ◽  
Computed Tomography Enterography
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