Multiple organ tuberculosis of lung, pleura, and peritoneum in ankylosing spondylitis during adalimumab therapy

作者：Yoo Wan Hee^*

来源：Rheumatology International, 2012, 32(3): 787-790.

DOI：10.1007/s00296-009-1357-x

• Adalimumab
• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Multi-organs
• Tuberculosis

A case of multiple organ tuberculosis (TBc) involving lung, pleura, and peritoneum in a 39-year-old man with long-standing ankylosing spondylitis (AS) treated with adalimumab was presented. The relationship between antitumor necrosis factor-alpha (anti-TNF-alpha) therapy and TBc was also reviewed. This case illustrates that TBc can develop in multiple organs during adalimumab therapy, and thus, the awareness of serious complications of multiple organs and atypical extrapulmonary pattern of TBc during anti-TNF-alpha therapy needs to be increased.

• 出版日期2012-3