Variation of Chest Radiographic Patterns in Pulmonary Tuberculosis by Degree of Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Related Immunosuppression pot

... 242 Variation of Chest Radiographic Patterns in Pulmonary Tuberculosis by Degree of Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Related Immunosuppression David C. Perlman, Wafaa ... Table 1 shows of CD4 / lymphocyte counts and chest radiographic findings in HIV-infected patients with culture-confirmed pulmonary TBthe frequency of specific radiographic findings by CD4 /...

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... films, processing them and obtaining independent readings by at least two readers is very high. The yield of pulmonary tuberculosis cases by different chest symptoms was not documented in details ... symptom inquiry and chest radiography were used in all these surveys. In order to study the yield of cases by different symptoms (cough, chest pain, fever and haemoptysi...

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... Thus, the traditional concept of differ- ences in chest radiographic findings between children and Chest Radiographic Findings of Primary Pulmonary Tuberculosis in High School Outbreaks Korean ... radiographic findings observed in our study concur with those examined in the study of Sant’Anna et al. (18), who evaluated radiographic findings of pulmonary TB ob...

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... Proportions of resistance patterns were determined using a num- ber of resistant cases using as a denominator. Resistance to at least one drug was found in 304 (29.7%) patients in 1023 a total of tuberculosis ... consecutive pulmonary tuberculosis cases were inves- tigated. Patterns were examined as single and/or probable combinations of isoniazid (H), rifampicin (R), et...

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... threatening compounding of conditions. (24) Suppression of the immune system is the basic cause of HIV -tuberculosis co-infection. In this study there was no case of HIV -tuberculosis co-infection, ... hand, severe fulminating pulmonary tuberculosis remains a challenge. Tuberculosis required intensive care admission a count for 1-3% of all tuberculosis cases. (10,1...

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... have influenced results adversely. For a number of reasons, one of which is the influence of the training programme of NTI, the findings of this study should be considered illustrative of methodology ... adversely affected by transfer of trained personnel and their replacement by untrained ones, inadequate supply of stains and other requirements, and quality of s...

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... analyses The feasibility of conducting quality of life interviews among TB patients using the MOS in urban Uganda setting was evaluated by examining the percent of miss- ing item responses, interviewer-reported ... functioning and well being of TB patients so that individual patient specific needs are addressed to attain the best clinical or treatment outcome, and thus increasing...

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... strategies are not being achieved. Passive case finding is the mainstay of case finding in most developing countries. This relies heavily on sputum examination by smear and culture, chest radiology ... detect AFB in clinical samples by ZN staining. As seen in Table 1, 80 % of the samples showed the presence of AFB in the primary smear. Most of the primary smears s...

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... higher in patients than in controls. Low concentrations of serum retinol can be due to a number of factors, including re- duced intake or reduced absorption of fat. In addition, the infection ... Vitamin A levels to be associated with more extensive or severe disease, and low levels of retinol binding protein, prealbumin and albumin [2]. They also found that a high dose o...

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