Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1994. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
[Intestinal tuberculosis in patients with and without HIV infection]
An Med Interna. 1994 Apr;11(4):167-72. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/94318809 Martinez Vazquez C; Bordon J; Rivera Gallego A; Rodriguez A; Sopena B; de la Fuente J; Baltar J; Servicio de Medicina Interna, Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas,; Hospital Xeral de Vigo.
Abstract:
GOAL. To Study the main characteristics of intestinal tuberculosis (ITB), comparing patients with and without infection by HIV (HIV and non-HIV, respectively). PATIENTS AND METHODS. The clinical records of patients diagnosed of this disease in the past five years in our center, were retrospectively reviewed. We used as inclusion criteria the histological and/or microbiological corroboration of the intestinal anatomical piece or the bacteriological and/or histological corroboration of tuberculosis at any other location with clinical and radiological signs compatible with intestinal affection. Two groups were established according to the serological results for HIV: HIV and non-HIV. RESULTS. We studied seven cases, three of them infected by the HIV. The mean age of HIV patients was 23 years, whereas the mean age of non-HIV patients was 49 years. Three non-HIV patients referred pulmonary tuberculosis when they were young. The interval between the onset of symptoms and the diagnosis in HIV patients was 45 days, ranging in the non-HIV patients between one month and four years. All the patients had abdominal pain. Six patients, including three HIV, had fever and constitutional syndrome. Thoracal radiography showed tuberculosis activity, bacteriologically demonstrated, in a HIV patient and in a non-HIV patient. Except one HIV-patient, the remainder were laparotomized. In all the HIV patients, intestinal tuberculosis was suspected upon admission, but this was not the case in the four non-HIV patients. CAT was the most useful of all the supplementary explorations conducted. Retrospectively, only four laparotomies were justified, although before this procedure, four patients were incorrectly oriented, one of them infected by the HIV. All the patients showed a good response to an specific treatment. CONCLUSIONS. Laparotomy is still a frequent diagnostic method. The characteristics of the HIV patients are similar to the ones of the non-HIV patients. The main differences are: younger ages and shorter time of evolution until diagnosis in the HIV group, and evidence of former or current pulmonary tuberculosis in the non-HIV group.
Keywords: Adult Comparative Study English Abstract Female Human *HIV Infections/COMPLICATIONS/DIAGNOSIS Male Middle Age *Tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal/COMPLICATIONS/DIAGNOSIS/DRUG THERAPY JOURNAL ARTICLE
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