Tuberculosis in the San José University Hospital in Popayán, Colombia, 1998-2000.
Keywords:
tuberculosis, clinical forms, epidemiology, diagnosis, pulmonary, extrapulmonary
Abstract
TB is a public health problem in the world. In Colombia the Health 100 Law caused changes in prevention programs. The TB control program was compromised too. The actions in relation with active looking and examination of respiratory symptomatic people has been lowering. This retrospective study describes the clinical, epidemiological and medical care characteristics of tuberculosis patients attended in the Hospital Universitario San José de-Popayán. The clinical expedients and laboratory registers were investigated. 120 cases of 187 registered patients were included; finally only 89 were tuberculosis cases: 39 pulmonary (43.8%) and 50 extrapulmonary (56.2%). The extrapulmonary forms were: miliar, 39 patients; pleural, 4: of lymph nodes, 3; osteoarticular, 2, and meningitis, 2 cases. 49% of patients were 15-59 years old, 28% more than 59; males 64% and 65% coming from country areas. Ziehl Neelsen (ZN) smear was positive in 22% of 59 sputums of pulmonary TB and 20.2% of 94 extrapulmonary TB samples: mycobacteria culture positive in 14.3% of 14 pulmonary TB sputum, and 29.6% of 54 extrapulmonary TB samples. The media days into hospital/yard was 4-26 and the media days to begin tuberculosis treatment/yard was 4-8. In summary there are important request for TB medical care to universitary hospital, however the diagnosis is difficult and takes a long time while mycobacteria can be transmitted to hospital contacts. It is necessary to get a better efficiency of diagnostic tests in the hospital and appropriated survey of the cases that begin treatment.Downloads
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Díaz ML, Muñoz S, Garcíad LB. Tuberculosis in the San José University Hospital in Popayán, Colombia, 1998-2000. Biomed. [Internet]. 2004 Jun. 1 [cited 2024 Jul. 27];24(Sup1):92-101. Available from: https://revistabiomedica.org/index.php/biomedica/article/view/1308
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2004-06-01
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