- Case timeline.
Dates | Relevant past medical history and interventions | ||
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09 February 2020 | 24-year-old male smoker (20 Pk/year). | ||
Summaries from initial and follow-up visits | Diagnostic testing | Interventions | |
16 February 2020 | Complains of chest pain on right side. Pleural fluid analysis showed lymphocytic pleural effusion. | CT of the chest was carried out which showed large loculated left-sided pleural effusion with thick enhancing pleura. Thoracoscopy was carried out and pleural biopsy was taken which showed necrotizing granuloma. PCR TB tested on 21 February 2020 displayed negative results. | Anti-TB was started on 24 February 2020 in the form of rifampicin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol. |
16 March 2020 | Anti-TB medication was started on 24 February 2020. | TB culture carried out on 16 March 2020 tested positive | |
22 December 2020 | Patient had no physical follow-up since March due to COVID 19 pandemic. No complains of chest pain, no cough, fever sputum. Weight gain of 5 kg. looks healthy. | Chest X-ray shows resolution of left-sided pleural effusionx residual pleural thickening and mild volume loss, no new infiltrates bilaterally. | Stopped treatment himself in August 2020 (completed 6 months of Anti TB medication). |
CT: computerized tomography, PCR: polymerase chain reaction, TB: tuberculosis