Disseminated Tuberculosis in a girl with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: An unusual case mimic-king an autoimmune disease

Abstract

Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of mortality in the world despite multiple control and treatment strategies. Disseminated tuberculosis corresponds to 5% of cases. We report the first case in literature of an adolescent patient with type 1 diabetes mellitus and disseminated tuberculosis, who had constitutional symptoms associated with low back pain and was initially, interpreted initially as noninfectious sacroiliitis and a probable inflammatory bowel disease.

Keywords

• diabetes mellitus
• sacroiliitis
• tuberculosis miliary