Radiologic findings of pulmonary tuberculosis in adolescents docx

... following tests were used: the Mann-Whitney non-parametric test for comparing continuous (numerical) variables Radiologic findings of pulmonary tuberculosis in adolescents Jan-1_2011.indd ... notifi- cations (individual investigation sheet of the Ministry of Health) of all adolescents living in the cities of Manaus and Salvador, diag- nosed with TB and notified to...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... 10 of 11 should be taken into account in community-based health education pertaining to TB intervention. HIV/AIDS is known to play a major role in increasing the burden of TB [5]. Very few individuals ... generation of detail additional information. This also hindered an in- depth analysis of the results. Hence, the findings from the qualitative portion of the study might be...

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... groups. DISCUSSION Tuberculosis is becoming increasingly common in the elderly and burden of the disease in them is likely to continue to increase substantially. 3,4 Moreover, with increasing age, a state of ... with ageing and hence must be kept in mind during the diagnostic evaluation of elderly patients. 11 Several findings of the current study are in accordance with t...

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Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... coughing. All cough officers received training in our department of infectious disease control with regard to methods for questioning patients, and for recording cough conditions and dura- tion in ... orders every morning during patient admission, they recorded all patients who complained of cough, including during the pre-admission period. If a patient complained of cough at any ot...

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... taken into cognisance the findings of most of the surveys wherein X-ray was the initial screening tool. They had chosen to ignore the findings of surveys, wherein the initial screening was ... Journal of Tuberculosis ESTIMATING THE BURDEN OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN INDIA 195 Table 1 : Prevalence of tuberculosis in India according to screening tools used...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... more likely to die of the disease (6, 14). Age-related changes in the tuber- culin skin reaction and a high incidence of underlying illnesses also play a role in prolonging the final diagnosis (15). ... of Internal Medicine; Department of Radiology * , Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul; Department of Radiology  , Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... The delay in diagnosis and inability to cure a high proportion of pulmonary smear positive cases are the main reasons of increased risk of infection, high death rate and MDR cases in Pakistan. ... examining more than one sample. REFERENCES 1. Rubin SA. Tuberculosis, captain of all these men of death. In: Radiol North Am 1995;33:619–39. 2. Raviglione MC, O’ Brien RJ....

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... to least variance, allowing retention of a few PCs containing the majority of data variance and discarding the bulk of remaining components that contain small amounts of variance that may be measurement ... NY, USA c Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Bellevue Chest Service, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA d Infometrix, Inc, Woodinville, WA, USA e Saint...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... least 24% of the employees exposed to infectious tuberculosis in their office for 4 months were infected [13]. Delays for patients with pulmonary tuberculosis are more com- mon in developing countries ... prompt implementation of a full course of therapy [5]. This is especially important in the case of untreated smear-posi- tive patients, who are the main sources of infe...

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