TITLE:
Active Tuberculosis in Children Receiving Chemotherapy
AUTHORS:
Ilham Tadmori, Sarra Benmiloud, Mohamed Habibi, Mostapha Hida
KEYWORDS:
Hematologic Disease, Tuberculosis, Child, Chemotherapy
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Pediatrics,
Vol.12 No.1,
February
18,
2022
ABSTRACT: Tuberculosis
infections is a serious illness and can be life threatening for patients with
hematologic malignancies. We are reporting the observations of two children
aged 7 and 5 years undergoing anticancer treatment for hematological
malignancies. The symptoms were, in the first case, cough, purulent sputum and
signs of tuberculosis impregnation, for the second case, cervical adenopathies
(PDA) with inflammatory signs. The evolution under antituberculosis treatment
was favorable for both patients, with a 5-year follow-up for the first patient
and one year for the second case. The tuberculosis did not affect chemotherapy.
The goal of our work is to specify the etio-pathogenic mechanisms, the
clinical, therapeutic and evolutionary particularities of this rare
association.