All issues > Volume 28(2); 1985

Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1985;28(2):169-173. Published online February 28, 1985.

A case of congenital tuberculosis.

Mee Hye MH Kim, Hyuk Choul HC Kwon, Young Il YI Park, Sang Woo SW Kim

¹Department of Pediatrics, In-Je Medical College, Seoul,Korea
²Department of Pathology, In-Je Medical College, Seoul,Korea

Abstract

We experienced a case of congenital tuberculosis in a 10-month-old female patient who had disseminated tuberculosis. She was the 1st born of 30-year-old woman who was diagnosed as tuberculous pleurisy on the 12 th day after delivery. Congenital tuberculosis was suspected because of detection of AFB in gastric aspirates on the 60 days of life. But the treatment was discontinued after 2 months voluntarily. She was admitted at the age of 10 months with a history of semicomatose mentality. She was died suddenly in spite of anti-Tbc-chemotherapy at the age of 14 months. Congenital tuberculosis was suspected by history and autopsy findings. The review of the related literature was made briefly.

Keywords :Congenital tuberculosis;Disseminated tuberculous lesion