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    Multifocal tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome – a case report of a complicated scenario
    (2019-06-17) Narendran, Gopalan; Oliveira-de-Souza, Deivide; Vinhaes, Caian L; Akrami, Kevan; Fukutani, Kiyoshi F; Banu, Kesavamurthy; Chandrasekaran, Padmapriyadarsini; Ravichandran, Narayanan; Sereti, Irini; Swaminathan, Soumya; Andrade, Bruno B
    Background Tuberculosis (TB)-associated Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (TB-IRIS) is an aberrant inflammatory response in TB patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus coinfection, after antiretroviral therapy commencement. Case presentation We present a rare case of a 51-year-old woman living with HIV who developed a series of TB-IRIS events occurring at multiple sites sequentially, highlighting the clinical complexity in diagnosis and management. Conclusion This case illustrates how complicated a clinical scenario of successive TB-IRIS episodes can be, in terms of clinical management.