FEATURES OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS WITH AND WITH OUT HIV CO�INFECTION :A RADIOLOGICAL COMPARATIVE STUDY

Sai Lakshmi.V.S; Dhanalaxmi Dhanpal; Sreenivasa Chowdary.J

Volume : VII, Issue : I, January - 2017

FEATURES OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS WITH AND WITH OUT HIV CO�INFECTION :A RADIOLOGICAL COMPARATIVE STUDY

Sai Lakshmi. V. S, Dhanalaxmi Dhanpal, Sreenivasa Chowdary. J

Abstract :

In most people with early stages of HIV infection, symptoms of tuberculosis are similar as in people without HIV infection. In areas where many people have HIV infection, tuberculosis programmes should continue to focus on identifying infectious sputum–smear– positive cases through microscopy. However, diagnosis of tuberculosis in individual patients using the standard diagnostic tools can be more difficult if they have advanced HIV infection. A wide Clinicoradiological spectrum of tuberculosis was seen among HIV patients, in consonance with their varying immune status. With the conventional sputum positivity and tuberculin test not providing an adequate diagnostic help, familiarity with the clinicoradiological spectrum of tuberculosis and coexisting opportunistic infections is absolutely necessary. This study makes an attempt to correlate the Chest X–ray and CD4 counts as it will help in better understanding this deadly duo of HIV and tuberculosis.

This study is done to compare the Chest X ray features of HIV positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients with HIV negative pulmonary tuberculosis patients, to determine the percentage of patients with Atypical Chest X ray in HIV positive and negative groups and to determine the relationship between atypical Chest X rays and CD4 count.