Combination of Crohn's disease and intestinal tuberculosis. Clinical observation

According to WHO, extrapulmonary forms of tuberculosis (TB) account for 10–15% of the total number of tuberculosis cases worldwide. Crohn's disease (CD) and intestinal tuberculosis have similar clinical, endoscopic and morphological manifestations in many ways. In all cases, when detecting intestinal CD, it is necessary to exclude tuberculosis infection in biopsies using PCR diagnostics. The risk of developing various forms of TB increases with pathogenetic immunosuppressive therapy for inflammatory bowel diseases. A clinical case of a rare combination of the intestinal form of TB and CD is presented, reflecting the difficulty of diagnosing the two pathologies and the difficulty of choosing therapy when they are combined.