Chest X-Ray Severity Index as a Predictor of Requiring Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation in COVID-19 Positive Patientsdoi:10.29271/jcpsp.2023.07.1048Hashmat, Muhammad AwaisSaeed, Muhammad SaqibArooj, SadafMasud, MohsinKhan, Abdul WajidNadeem, Muhammad Faisal...
602 TB Specialist report Hi, My dad (70 years old) is a heavy smoker and when we did the medical tests they asked for tuberculosis test and repeat the chest-xrays after 3 months. Three days ago, his result had been provided and was negative. The panel clinic then submitted the result...
[19, 20] found lower leukocyte counts for patients with negative chest X-rays, corroborating our results. Our findings that additional inclusion of CRP, leukocyte count, MAP and SAT in the regression model reduced the MRRs for both infiltrate without bacteraemia and bacteraemia patients suggest ...
Patients with chest x-ray lesions were found to have lower CD4 counts with probable worse destruction of their immune system. SAARC Journal of Tuberculosis, Lung Diseases & HIV/AIDS; 2013; X(2); 27-34 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/saarctb.v10i2.9710...
Household contacts of adult smear-positive TB patients were assessed by questionnaire, purified protein derivative (PPD) skin test, ELISPOT assay, physical examination, chest X-ray and sputum/gastric aspirate. Thirty-three TB cases were identified from 2174 of 2381 contacts of 317 adult smear-...
A considerable proportion of the study participants was also found with triple or quadruple infections of HCV/TB (12%), TB/STI (0.8%), HCV/STI (2%), HCV/HBV (1%), HBV/TB (0.4%), HBV/STI (0.2%), HBV/HCV/TB (0.4%), HBV/HCV/STI (0.2%), or HCV/TB/STI (0.2%). Strong ...
However, little is known about the time delay caused by initial negative sputum smear microscopy (NSSM), but consecutive positive Xpert TB test (PXTBt) and its association with TB mortality in resource-constrained settings. We aimed to estimate the median time delay between initial NSSM but ...
All patients were free of distant metastasis at presentation and were assessed by abdominal ultrasound, chest X-ray and bone scintigraphy before surgery. All patients received chemotherapy and tamoxifen (20 mg dayÀ1) for a maximum of 5 years. In those patients who were ER-negative, tamoxifen ...
Furthermore, progression to active TB disease was evaluated for up to 12 months. Methods 163 HIV-negative childhood household contacts under 16 years of age were enrolled for TST, QFT-GIT and chest X-ray (CXR). Follow-up was performed at six and 12 months. Factors associated with TST and...
The aim of the study was to analyse chest X-ray (CXR) findings among men and women with smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). All new cases of smear ... T Anna,L Nguyen Hoang,L Lars Olof 被引量: 0发表: 2016年 Predicting the Incidence of Smear Positive Tuberculosis Cases in Iran...