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Coexisting Bronchogenic Carcinoma and Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Same Lobe: Radiologic Findings and Clinical Significance doc
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... 2001
Coexisting Bronchogenic Carcinoma and
Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Same Lobe:
Radiologic Findings and Clinical Significance
Objective: 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 and pulmonary TB which
coexist 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...
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HIV in pregnancy - ethical issues in screening and therapeutic research
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01/11/2013, 08:20
... 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
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HIV 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...
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Tài liệu Clinical presentation and outcome of patients diagnosed with active pulmonary tuberculosis in a large critical care unit docx
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15/02/2014, 12:20
... presentation (range: 1-90
days), including fever in 51%, cough in 14%, dyspnea in
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...
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Tài liệu Decline in air pollution and change in prevalence in respiratory symptoms and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in elderly women pdf
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17/02/2014, 22:20
... Lung
function, Inflammation and Aging), a prosp ective cohort
of elderly women living in the highly industrialised Ruhr
district and in adjacent rural areas in Germany. Chronic
respiratory symptoms and ... symp-
toms and COPD are shown in Table 2. The prevalence
of 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 the
questionnaire follow-up in 2006. The women were
invited in a randomized manner from four cities in t he
Ruhr area (Duisburg,...
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RKesneaorcwh arlteiclde ge and perception of pulmonary tuberculosis in pastoral communities in the middle and Lower Awash Valley of Afar region, Ethiopia docx
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06/03/2014, 04:20
... 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 ... 11
should be taken into account in community-based health
education pertaining to TB intervention.
HIV/AIDS is known to play a major role in increasing
the burden of TB [5]. Very few individuals we ... low knowledge of each domain using mean
value.
Information collected during the FGDs was translated
into Amharic and entered into separate tables for women
and men, according to the study area....
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RISK OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATED WITH EXOGENOUS REINFECTION AND ENDOGENOUS REACTIVATION IN A SOUTH INDIAN RURAL POPULATION-A MATHEMATICAL ESTIMATE* doc
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06/03/2014, 04:20
... 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...
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Classification and regression tree (CART) model to predict pulmonary tuberculosis in hospitalized patients docx
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15/03/2014, 03:20
... 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 an
early stage of development in ... or possible X-ray findings and atyp-
ical findings (Table 1). Typical were those considered as
having 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 the
model. Patients with missing HIV serology results were
joined with the HIV...
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PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AND ITS MANAGEMENT IN CLASSICAL UNANI LITERATURE pptx
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15/03/2014, 03:20
... 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...
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Diagnostic and Therapeutic Problems of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Elderly Patients doc
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15/03/2014, 03:20
... 13) and more likely
to die of the disease (6, 14). Age-related changes in the tuber-
culin skin reaction and a high incidence of underlying illnesses
also 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 a
university 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...
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Hospital Control and Multidrug-Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Female Patients, Lima, Peru pot
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22/03/2014, 18:20
... resistant
to isoniazid and rifampin (4). Nosocomial
spread of MDRTB has been reported in both
industrialized and developing countries and has
been linked to inadequate hospital infection
control practices ... Gilman,†‡# and the Working Group on TB in Peru
1
*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 mycobacterial
specimens (8). Ziehl-Neelsen and Auramine
staining were performed by standard...
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Factors affecting delays in diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in a tertiary care hospital in Istanbul, Turkey pptx
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22/03/2014, 18:20
... treatment in our
patients. 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: 24-31
25. Enkhbat S, Toyota M, Yasuda N, Ohara H: Differing influence on
delays in the case-finding process ... resulted in institutional delays
in twelve patients (6%). The reason of institutional delay
was not identified in eight patients (4%).
Table 4 shows the distribution of the diagnosis intervals
and initiation...
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Radiological Findings of Extensively Drug-Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Non-AIDS Adults: Comparisons with Findings of Multidrug-Resistant and Drug-Sensitive Tuberculosis docx
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22/03/2014, 18:20
... describe
the radiological findings of XDR pulmonary TB and to
compare the observed findings with findings of DS TB and
non-XDR MDR TB in non-AIDS patients.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Our Institutional Review ... fluoroquinolone and at least one of
the three following injectable drugs: amikacin, capreomycin or kanamycin in addition
to isoniazid and rifampin. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB is defined as a strain ... isolation and the imaging
studies. Imaging findings of pulmonary tuberculosis may
depend on the chronicity or disease-ongoing period. A
further study on imaging findings of XDR TB in considera-
tion...
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PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN HIV INFECTION IN TANZANIA clinical and immunological studies pdf
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22/03/2014, 18:20
... 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) and in 5 (4.2%)...
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