A man with a productive cough

Daniel Pavlik; Mary Laxton; Lori Felker

doi:10.1097/01.JAA.0000510987.14286.b4

A man with a productive cough

JAAPA. 2017 Mar;30(3):28-31. doi: 10.1097/01.JAA.0000510987.14286.b4.

Authors

Daniel Pavlik¹, Mary Laxton, Lori Felker

Affiliation

¹ Daniel Pavlik is an assistant professor in the PA program at Salus University in Elkins Park, Pa., and practices emergency medicine at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, N.J., and Lower Bucks Hospital in Bristol, Pa. Mary Laxton is a clinical assistant professor and academic coordinator of the PA program at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa., and practices nephrology at Temple University Hospital. Lori Felker practices emergency medicine and urgent care at Union Hospital in Elkton, Md. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

PMID: 28221317
DOI: 10.1097/01.JAA.0000510987.14286.b4

Abstract

The clinical presentation of active tuberculosis is nonspecific. This article describes a patient whose chronic cough was eventually diagnosed as reactivation tuberculosis.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Chronic Disease
Cough / microbiology*
Fatal Outcome
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Recurrence
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / complications*
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / diagnostic imaging
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / drug therapy