Tuberculosis is a disease that is increasing and affects about 1/3 of the world’s population. In line with the increase in tuberculosis, cardiovascular disease has had a similar behavior to this group, ischemic coronary heart disease has become the main cause of death worldwide. It could be extracted, based on literature, a relationship between tuberculosis and ischemic coronary heart disease through risk factors in common and from a possible pathophysiological substrate that links them. The presentation of these two entities reported so far is varied: it has been found as a debut of an acute coronary syndrome in patients with active tuberculosis, and the progressive development of coronary atherosclerosis in patients with latent tuberculosis, among others. Given this possible link and the progressive increase in its incidence rates, we can affirm that we are facing an inadvertent synd...