Antecedentes. La tuberculosis (TB) es un problema de salud pública global con altas tasas de muerte, mala adherencia y perdida en el seguimiento, entre los factores asociados se ha visto que el consumo de cannabis podría favorecer la transmisión e infección de TB, así como también los resultados desfavorables del tratamiento. Objetivo. Desarrollar una revisión sistemática respecto a la asociación entre el consumo de cannabis y resultados negativos del tratamiento anti TB (muerte, perdida en el seguimiento y falla del tratamiento). Material y métodos. Se desarrolló una búsqueda bibliográfica en Pubmed, Biblioteca Virtual de la Salud (BVS), Registro Cochrane Central de Ensayos Controlados y Scopus, utilizando los términos: “tuberculosis”, “cannabis use”, entre otros, incluyendo estudios de cohorte, casos y controles y transversales publicados hasta el 31 de diciembre ...

A 38-year-old man from Lima, with a history of HIV for three years in treatment, presented with a sensation of thermal elevation, nocturnal diaphoresis and productive cough with whitish expectoration; he also had a pulsating bitemporal headache and, one week before admission, he presented shortness of breath associated with sore throat, dysphonia and oppressive chest pain of intensity 6/10. Due to persistence of symptoms, he went to the Emergency Department, where the chest X-ray showed a mediastinal mass, so it was decided to hospitalize him. Chest TEM showed a left mediastinal mass, with multiple cervical and mediastinal adenopathies; and abdominal TEM showed a mass in the aortic bifurcation and multiple pararaortic and inguinal nodes. Inguinal node biopsyshowed histology compatible with Castleman’s disease. Chemotherapy was started, with favorable evolution and improvement of sympto...

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The case of a 20-year-old male patient is presented, with an illness of one week characterized by asthenia, hyporexia, nausea, vomiting, neck stiffness, intermittent headache of intensity 9/10, fever quantified at 38.5. °C, scant dry cough, weight loss and left hemiparesis without loss of consciousness. Serological tests, including HIV, were negative. The spinal fluid showed pleocytosis with a predominance of mononuclear cells, hyperproteinorrachia and hypoglycorrhachia, with a positive GeneXpert MTB/RIF test for M. tuberculosis resistant to rifampicin, in addition to a positive sputum smear for the same germ. The images showed a miliary pattern and vascular compromise (bilateral hypodensities at the level of the basal ganglia and internal capsule). He was treated as multidrug-resistant systemic tuberculosis with a favorable outcome.