Tuberculosis pleural y endocarditis como complicaciones de origen multifactorial en granulomatosis con poliangítis. Reporte de caso clínico

We present the case of a 36-year-old woman with a history of granulomatosis with polyangiitis, chronic kidney disease, and systemic arterial hypertension. Debut with dyspnea, weakness, and hemoptysis, she was suspected in atypical pneumonia, discarded, persisting with tachypnea, tachycardia, and chest pain. The protocol for pulmonary tuberculosis was started with negative sputum samples, positive blood culture for Staphylococcus haemolyticus, chest tomography with left pneumothorax and ipsilateral pleural effusion, exudate-type pleural fluid was obtained, acid-fast staining, negative PCR for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A follow-up echocardiogram was performed due to a new murmur, reporting valvular vegetation, concluding a diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis and endocarditis as complications of multifactorial origin associated with immunosuppression in granulomatosis with polyangiitis.