Case 160: The Many Faces of Cardiac Tuberculosis

Some examples of TB involving the heart

Case 160: The Many Faces of Cardiac Tuberculosis

We know quite a bit of tuberculosis (TB) in different parts of the body, but somehow TB of the heart has been a bit of a black box, overshadowed by sarcoidosis when it come to granulomatous cardiomyopathy and lack of understanding when it comes to conditions like tumefactive TB.

The video runs through a few cases of TB of the heart from pericardium to myocardium to endocardium and mixed presentations.


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