Rare Offshoot of a Common Malady
Anaemia and Tuberculosis
Published: August 1, 2016 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2016/20773.8269
Gautham Kolla, Vishak Acharya, Prashantha Balanthimogru, Arun Mani, Shehzad Ruman
1. Junior Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Kasturba Medical College (KMC), Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
2. Professor and Head, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
3. Senior Resident, Department of Medicine, Consultant; Department of Hematology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
4. Senior Resident, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
5. Junior Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Gautham Kolla,
S/O K. Ashok Kumar, Plot no-84/A, G-1, Road no-11, Nagavilla Apartments, Filmnagar,
Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, Telangana -500096, India.
E-mail: kollagautham@gmail.com
Haematological manifestations are one of the rarer presentations of tuberculosis and are usually of normocytic normochromic type. An association of Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia (AIHA) with active pulmonary tuberculosis is an exceeding rare entity, though anaemia and tuberculosis commonly co-exist. We report a patient with sputum negative pulmonary tuberculosis with associated Coomb’s positive AIHA. The patient responded well to Anti- Tubercular Therapy (ATT) and low dose steroids tapered over a month.
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