Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Lepromatous Leprosy Coinfection

Table 1

Comparative analysis of some cases of leprosy-tuberculosis coinfection reported by various authors for last ten years.

	Sreeramareddy et al. [8]		Prasad et al. [5]	Trindade et al. [9]		Present author
Number of cases	2		1	2		1
	Case I	Case II		Case I	Case II
Age	65	50	34	31	46	49
Gap duration between leprosy and tuberculosis	3 M	2 Y	11 M	6 M	1 M	17 M
Types of leprosy	BL	LL	BL	BB-BT	BT-BB	LL
First infection	Leprosy	Leprosy	Leprosy	Tuberculosis	Leprosy	Leprosy
Past history of tuberculosis	No	NA	NA	NA	NA	No
Risk factors	Corticosteroids	Corticosteroids	Corticosteroids	NA	Corticosteroids	Corticosteroids
Types of tuberculosis	Pulmonary	Pulmonary	Pulmonary	Pleural TB	Pulmonary	Pulmonary
Chest radiographs // chest tomography	Pleural effusion; + bilateral infiltrates	Cavitary lesion; + bilateral infiltrates	Cavitation; + fibroconsolidation	Pleural effusion	Parenchymal opacification	Alveolar-interstitial syndrome
Sputum	Positive	Positive	Positive	NA	Positive	Positive
Diagnosis of leprosy	NA	NA	Slit skin smear	Histopathology; + Fite-Faraco	Histopathology	Histopathology
Lepra reaction	No	Type II	Type II	Type I	Type I	Type II

M: month; Y: year; NA: data not available; lepra reaction type I (reversal); lepra reaction type II (ENL).