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Resolution of secondary amyloidosis 14 years after adequate chemotherapy for skeletal tuberculosis
M N Sunga1, C V Reyes, J Zvetina
1Pulmonary Section, Laboratory Service, and Diagnostic Radiology, HinesVeterans Administration Hospital, Ill.
Southern Medical Journal
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Despite available chemotherapy, survival of patients with skeletal tuberculosis and secondary amyloidosis for more than five years is extremely unusual. We have described a patient with inadequately treated tuberculous osteomyelitis and later concomitant pulmonary tuberculosis and secondary amyloidosis. After a prolonged course of antituberculous chemotherapy, the patient was found to be cured of the tuberculosis and to have complete resolution of the amyloidosis 14 years after the diagnosis.