... 2001Coexisting Bronchogenic Carcinoma and Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Same Lobe:Radiologic Findings and Clinical SignificanceObjective: Bronchogenic carcinoma can mimic or be masked by pulmonary tuberculosis ... pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), and the aim of this study was to describe the radiologic findings and clinical significance of bronchogenic carcinoma andpulmonary TB whichcoexist in the same lobe.Materials and Methods: ... within the tumor was seen in 20 patients(39.2%), and was located eccentrically in 15 cases and cen-trally in five. Cavitation within the tumor was observed in five patients (9.8%), and mediastinal...
... Unsurprisingly, uptake in these countries is high (as well as in Sweden and the US). In the UK it is much lower but rising (de Cock and 71HIV in pregnancy 4HIV in pregnancy: ethical issues in screening ... Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.Sherr, L. (1999). Counselling and HIV testing: ethical dilemmas. In HIV and AIDS,Testing, Screening and ConWdentiality, ed. R. Bennett and C.A. Erin, 39–60. Oxford:Oxford ... understanding and information, and sometimes by coercion.The ethics of anonymised unlinked screening for HIV in pregnancy With anonymized testing, there is a tension between the perceived interests...
... presentation (range: 1-90 days), including fever in 51%, cough in 14%, dyspneain 8%, night sweats in 6%.Interventions: Twenty-two patients were treated for tuberculosis during hospitalization. The ... included cough (14%), dyspnea (8%), night sweats (6%) and fatigue in 21% of cases. Other less common symptoms, including hemoptysis, weight loss, severe respiratory insufciency, anemia, and ... were seen as gram stain positive for AFB (30%) excluding others as negative. Cultures were observed to be more sensitive than staining in 69% of total aspirates, including cases that were found...
... Lungfunction, Inflammation and Aging), a prosp ective cohortof elderly women living in the highly industrialised Ruhrdistrict andin adjacent rural areas in Germany. Chronicrespiratory symptoms and ... symp-toms and COPD are shown in Table 2. The prevalenceof respiratory symptoms and chronic bronchitis by phy-sician’s diagnosis increased between the baseline investi-gation and 2006 with increasing ... measurement at base-line and who agreed to further examinations in thequestionnaire follow-up in 2006. The women wereinvited in a randomized manner from four cities in t heRuhr area (Duisburg,...
... GMD,participated in study design, data analysis and interpretation. DS participated in data analysis, interpretation and write-up. GB involved in study design and critically revised the manuscript. FA involved ... 11should be taken into account in community-based healtheducation pertaining to TB intervention.HIV/AIDS is known to play a major role in increasingthe burden of TB [5]. Very few individuals we ... low knowledge of each domain using meanvalue.Information collected during the FGDs was translatedinto Amharic and entered into separate tables for women and men, according to the study area....
... population remain uninfected 19896 64.1 *Uninfected } recently infected 596** 1.9** Previously infected with recent reinfection 415 1.3 Previously infected with no recent reinfection 10150 ... Sutherland, I. Endogenous reactivation and exogenous reinfection, IUAT 1972,47,123. RISK OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS 65 rate of infection (column 4) between I and II and II and ... years and above) infected at the I survey and examined at the II survey, 415 persons had become reinfected between I-II surveys and I0,150 had no reinfection (Table 1). The corresponding figures...
... are increased due to the need for installing and maintaining IR [15-17]. IR are still scarce and infec-tion control measures in health care facilities are at anearly stage of development in ... or possible X-ray findings and atyp-ical findings (Table 1). Typical were those considered ashaving any parenchymal infiltrate or cavity localized in the upper zone (defined as the area above ... misclassification rate for an individual not included in the original data [33].Data collected from all patients were included in themodel. Patients with missing HIV serology results werejoined with the HIV...
... lean and thin. Body skin is dry and thin. Face turns pale and eyes sink. The facial bones become prominent and bones and skin come in contact due to wasting. Both temporal sink. Clinical features ... disease, Sil and the causing agent Ajsame Khabitha (microorganisms). Symptoms and signs Pulse is subtle, firm, continuous and weak. Fever is continuous till morning. Fever is constant and due ... Khameera Khashkhash and the mixture is divided into two parts; one part is to be taken in the morning and the other one in the evening. After that decoction of Behidana or Quince seeds (Cydonia...
... 13) and more likelyto die of the disease (6, 14). Age-related changes in the tuber-culin skin reaction and a high incidence of underlying illnessesalso play a role in prolonging the final ... anti-TB drugs, and mortality during treatment.Initial presenting symptoms about which patients complained, and highest body temperature measured during initial pre-sentation were included. A body ... elderly in hospital: experience at auniversity hospital in Saudi Arabia. J Infect 1995; 31: 93-7.22. Morris CD. Sputum examination in the screening and diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in the...
... resistantto isoniazid and rifampin (4). Nosocomialspread of MDRTB has been reported in bothindustrialized and developing countries and hasbeen linked to inadequate hospital infectioncontrol practices ... Gilman,†‡# and the Working Group on TB in Peru1*University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;†Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore,Maryland, ... digested and concentrat-ed by the standard N-acetyl-L-cysteine NaOH-Na citrate method for processing mycobacterialspecimens (8). Ziehl-Neelsen and Auraminestaining were performed by standard...
... treatment in ourpatients. These delays included patient delay, institu-tional delay, diagnostic delay, and delay in the treat-ment. Both patient and institutional delays result in increased infection ... health care seeking behaviour in a rural area of Nepal. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, 2001; 5: 24-3125. Enkhbat S, Toyota M, Yasuda N, Ohara H: Differing influence ondelays in the case-finding process ... resulted in institutional delays in twelve patients (6%). The reason of institutional delaywas not identified in eight patients (4%).Table 4 shows the distribution of the diagnosis intervals and initiation...
... describethe radiological findings of XDR pulmonary TB and tocompare the observed findings with findings of DS TB and non-XDR MDR TB in non-AIDS patients.MATERIALS AND METHODSOur Institutional Review ... fluoroquinolone and at least one ofthe three following injectable drugs: amikacin, capreomycin or kanamycin in additionto isoniazid and rifampin. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB is defined as a strain ... isolation and the imagingstudies. Imaging findings of pulmonary tuberculosis maydepend on the chronicity or disease-ongoing period. Afurther study on imaging findings of XDR TB in considera-tion...
... patient had symptoms and signs of chest infection and were HIV infected, but who was not given other clinical information. Reading was done in all cases in a systematic way, describing for each chest ... 2. In this study the ten-year trend in leading causes of hospitalisation and in- hospital morbidity and mortality attributed to HIV-infection is examined in a tertiary health care facility in ... bacteria in 5, klebsiella species in 5 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in 3) , in 28 (23.3%) M. tuberculosis, in 12 (10%) HHV8, in 9 (7.5%) P. jiroveci (identified microscopically) andin 5 (4.2%)...