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Abstract: Researchers in the United Kingdom and Vietnam have identified a series of clinical and laboratory variables that can be used to quickly and accurately diagnose tuberculous meningitis. Their system is designed to help health workers distinguish tuberculous meningitis from meningitis caused by other bacterial infections. ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the diagnostic potential of the ADA(T), ADA isoenzymes (ADA1 and ADA2) and the interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) test in HIV-seropositive patients with tuberculous peritonitis. METHODS: Ascitic ADA(T), ADA1, ADA2 and IFN-gamma were prospectively evaluated in HIV-seronegative patients with tuberculous ...
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Abstract: BACKGROUND: The aim of this revision is to know the incidence of splenic abscess (SA) in our hospital, its etiology, with special reference to tuberculosis, and clinical characteristics. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Abdominal CT-scan performed during the period 1987-1997, with the diagnosis of splenic abscess were reviewed. ...
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Abstract: BACKGROUND: Tuberculous lymphadenitis is one of the most common forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Its incidence has increased in association with the HIV epidemy, as tuberculosis as a whole. In addition to this higher incidence in the recent years, we have noticed in our facility an apparent increase of the well k ...
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Abstract: <p><b>BACKGROUND:</b> Tuberculous lymphadenitis is one of the most common forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis . Its incidence has increased in association with the HIV epidemy, as tuberculosis as a whole. In addition to this higher incidence in the recent years, we have noticed in our facility an apparent increase o ...
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Abstract: SETTING: University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia . OBJECTIVE: To compare the clinical presentation of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive tuberculous lymphadenitis with primary HIV lymphadenopathy and HIV-negative tuberculous lymphadenitis. DESIGN: Prospective study of ...
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Abstract: Recent studies in populations with a high prevalence of tuberculosis and HIV infection report that tuberculous pleurisy occurs in approximately 30% of patients with tuberculosis. However, the fraction of patients with tuberculosis who have tuberculous pleurisy is comparable in HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals ...
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Abstract: Objectives: To determine the seroprevalence for HIV-infection in a population of 932 pulmonary smear positive tuberculous patients. To evaluate the results of standardized 8 month chemotherapy among this cohort. Methods: This is a retrospective study carried out among 932 pulmonary smear positive tuberculous patients, ...
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Abstract: BACKGROUND: Patients with non-tuberculous mycobacteria are usually started on conventional antituberculous triple therapy once acid fast bacilli are detected, before the exact type of mycobacteria has been identified. The ability to identify the characteristics of patients with tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobact ...
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Abstract: <p><b>INTRODUCTION</b>: The diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis is notoriously difficult to make, particularly in the setting of HIV infection. In the western Cape in South Africa where the incidence of TBM is extremely high (689 confirmed cases in 1991) (1), a low CSF chloride (less than 110mmol/1) is used to distin ...
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Abstract: To determine the seroprevalence for HIV-infection in a population of 932 pulmonary smear positive tuberculous patients. To evaluate the results of standardized 8 month chemotherapy among this cohort. <p><b>METHODS</b>: This is a retrospective study carried out among 932 pulmonary smear positive tuberculous patients, ...
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Abstract: Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) anti-mycobacterial antigen 60 (A60) IgM, IgG and IgA in patients affected by meningitis of different etiologies were assayed as a rapid diagnostic test in cases of tuberculous meningitis. A commercial EIA was used to test 127 CSF samples classified as follows: tuberculous meningitis (n = 27 C ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVES: To evaluate wide-needle (19-gauge) aspiration in the diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis. SETTING: Department of Surgery, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia . PATIENTS: Three hundred and four patients presenting to one surgeon for diagnostic surgical biopsy ...
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Abstract: The value of ascites gamma interferon concentration and ascites adenosine deaminase activity in distinguishing tuberculosis from other causes of ascites was examined in a prospective study of 86 patients with ascites, including 16 with tuberculous peritonitis. Gamma interferon concentration was higher in tuberculous p ...
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Abstract: Homozygosity at the DQ allele and/or presence of the DQB1*03XX allele are associated with miliary tuberculous while homozygosity at the HLA-A allele and/or the presence of the HLA-A33 allele are associated with tuberculous gastrointestinal disease. The DQB1*03XX allele may represent a binding site described in the past ...
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Abstract: The use of the immunomodulatory effects of thalidomide in complicated refractory tuberculous meningitis has been described in a limited number of cases in the literature. This is the first case report in the UK illustrating the role of thalidomide in patients with dual HIV and tuberculous infection complicated by immun ...
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Abstract: Tuberculous meningitis, in patients with HIV infection, was more common in men, but in patients without HIV infection was more common in women. Tuberculous meningitis occurred at a younger age in patients with HIV infection than in patients without HIV infection. Blood electrolytes were similar in patients with or with ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of adjunctive prednisolone on morbidity, pericardial fluid resolution, and mortality in HIV seropositive patients with effusive tuberculous pericarditis. DESIGN: Double blind randomised placebo controlled trial. SETTING: Two medical school affiliated referral hospitals in Harare, ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: The authors report an exceptional site of tuberculous osteo-articular infection which must be diagnosed before the destructive stage. OBSERVATIONS: Case 1 : a 21 years old woman presented an inflammatory pubic pain after a trauma with weight loss of 4 kgs in 3 weeks. She presented also 2 satellite inguinal ...
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Abstract: SETTING: Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi . OBJECTIVE: Review of clinical and investigation findings and outcome, using a standard management protocol, in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive and HIV-negative patients with tuberculous pericardial effusion, i ...
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Abstract: The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic is associated with a marked increase of tuberculosis cases. The influence of HIV on diagnostic methods for tuberculous lymphadenitis is less clear. In an environment of high HIV and tuberculosis prevalence in Blantyre, Malawi , a prosp ...
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Abstract: Objectives: Estimate the prevalence rate of primary resistances of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to antituberculosis drugs used by the Ivoirian National Program Against Tuberculosis and compare this rate between HIV-infected and uninfected patients. Methods: A cluster sampling at random was used to select consecutive new ...
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Abstract: BACKGROUND: Rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is of vital importance for patients with tuberculous meningitis. We evaluated an improved polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique for rapid and specific identification of M tuberculosis in CSF. METHODS: The technique was used on CSF samples from 42 patients ( ...
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Abstract: BACKGROUND: Tuberculous meningitis remains a frequently diagnosed entity in urban US hospitals, with the incidence increasing as a consequence of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). OBJECTIVE: To describe the occurrence, characteristics, and therapeutic responses of tuberculous meningitis among adul ...
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Abstract: Estimate the prevalence rate of primary resistances of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to antituberculosis drugs used by the Ivoirian National Program Against Tuberculosis and compare this rate between HIV-infected and uninfected patients. <p><b>METHODS</b>: A cluster sampling at random was used to select consecutive new ...
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Abstract: BACKGROUND--A retrospective study was carried out to confirm the clinical impression that, in Lothian, non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections are as common as pulmonary tuberculosis. METHODS--All pulmonary isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis/bovis and non-tuberculous mycobacteria in Scotland from April 1990 to Ma ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To determine whether tuberculous pericardial effusion is associated with HIV infection. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Harare, Zimbabwe . SUBJECTS: 61 consecutive patients presenting with tuberculous pericarditis over an 18 month period. RESULTS: Tuberculo ...
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Abstract: The catalytic concentration of pleural adenosine deaminase (ADA) and the ratio of pleural lysozyme (PL) to serum lysozyme (SL) were measured in consecutive patients (49 tuberculous and 179 nontuberculous) with two automated procedures in a Hitachi 717 analyzer. Using sensitivity and specificity curves, we established ...
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Abstract: 1) Treatment is cost-effective in relation to the free development of the tuberculous disease. 2) If the group given the non-supervised treatment is well selected this is cost-effective. ...
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Abstract: Researchers in Asia and the United Kingdom have found surprising information about the course of tuberculous meningitis in Vietnamese patients. Mycobacterial drug resistance had little effect on the outcome of treatment for infected adults studied by G.W. Thwaites and colleagues at the University of Oxford-Wellcome Tru ...
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