Urogenital tuberculosis in a patient with end-stage renal disease

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: André Patrício Ferreira de Almeida, Dina Fabrício da Silva, Karla Cristina Silva Petruccelli, Juliana da Costa Matos, Rodrigo Xavier Moreira, Marcelo Cordeiro-Santos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2020
• Subjects: Tuberculosis; Chronic Kidney Disease; Urogenital; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0284-2019; https://doaj.org/article/dc4bdc316054443f9ca2d1171843a095

Abstract Tuberculosis is one of the most common infections worldwide with particularly high incidence rates in countries with unfavorable socioeconomic conditions and among persons with impaired immune systems. While most patients with this disease will present with pulmonary tuberculosis, immunocompromised individuals also commonly present with extrapulmonary manifestations. We report the case of a 28-year-old male patient with end-stage renal disease who presented with long-standing systemic symptoms and genitourinary manifestations, who was diagnosed with urogenital tuberculosis both by clinical and microbiologic criteria. Clinicians should always suspect tuberculosis in patients with chronic symptoms, especially in those with immunosuppression.