Pulmonary tuberculosis presenting secondary organizing pneumonia with organized polypoid granulation tissue: case series and review of the literature

Table 2 Literature review of cases of organizing pneumonia associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

	Lawn et al. [5]	Sander et al. [6]	Yoon et al. [7]		Hsieh et al. [8]
No. of cases	One case	One case	Two cases		One case (only image)
Sex/age	F/27	M/75	F/78	F/75	M/80
Past medical history	AIDS	Hypertension, atrial fibrillation, colon polyp.	–	–	N/A
Bronchial wash or sputum
AFB smear	–	–	–	+	–
MTB PCR	N/A	N/A	+	–	N/A
AFB culture	+	+	+	+	+
DST	N/A	N/A	All sensitive	Isoniazid resistant	Isoniazid resistant
Biopsy	OP with AFB smear (+)*	OP	OP	OP	OP with AFB smear (+)
Steroid treatment	Not used	Used before and after diagnosis of tuberculosis	Not used	Not used	N/A
Prognosis	Dead due to fatal ARDS before diagnosis and treatment	Improved	Improved	Improved	N/A

AFB acid fast bacillus, DST drug sensitivity test, OP organizing pneumonia, N/A not available, ARDS acute respiratory distress syndrome
*Postmortem biopsy

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