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CASE REPORT
Year : 2012  |  Volume : 1  |  Issue : 1  |  Page : 29-31

Marfan syndrome: Exploring its jurisdiction


1 Department of Internal Medicine , Medwin Hospital, Nampally, Hyderabad, AP, India
2 Department of Internal Medicine and Pulmonology Critical Care, Medwin Hospital, Nampally, Hyderabad, AP, India

Correspondence Address:
Dilip Gude
Registrar, Internal medicine, Medwin Hospital, Nampally, Hyderabad - 500 001, AP
India
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Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None


DOI: 10.4103/2278-344X.96417

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Marfan syndrome is an inherited disorder of connective tissue with multisystem involvement. Associations with tuberculosis may quagmire the diagnostic capacities in delineating the exclusivity of pulmonary spectra of Marfan syndrome from tuberculosis especially in sputum negative (for acid fast bacilli) patients. The disorder also casts a huge spectrum of clinical manifestations some of them less known. We discuss our case of Marfan syndrome with sputum positive tuberculosis and explore the occurrence of such unusual presentations.


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