HISTORIA NATURAL DE LA TUBERCULOSIS PLEURAL EN UNA PACIENTE INMUNOCOMPETENTE
Andrea Zárate Vergara¹; Ulfran Castro Salas²; Irina Tirado Pérez^3
1 Medico epidemiólogo, residente de posgrado de Cuidados intensivos pediátrico,
Universidad de Santander. Colombia
² Médico pediatra, docente posgrado de Cuidados intensivos pediátrico, Universidad de Santander. Colombia
³ Medico epidemiólogo, magister en Cuidados paliativos pediátricos, residente de posgrado de cuidados intensivos pediátrico, Universidad de Santander. Colombia

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Introduction: Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that has been known since antiquity and with great importance at present, being one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality, it can have pulmonary and extrapulmonary presentation.

Method: review of current literature comparing articles with reviews of subjects in electronic search in databases of RIMA, MEDLINE, PUB-MED, MEDSCAPE, from 2013 to 2018

Clinical case: the clinical case of an immunocompetent adolescent with tuberculosis is represented. description of the natural history

Conclusions: It is essential to know the extrapulmonary presentation corresponds to 21% of cases of tuberculosis can be asymptomatic or symptomatic with fever, cough and pleuritic pain.

Key words: Extrapulmonary tuberculosis, Pleural tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, pediatrics.