Volume : VII, Issue : VI, June - 2018
Clinical, Radiological and Microbiological profile of Elderly Pulmonary Tuberculosis patients in Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital at Bareilly (U.P)
Rajeev Tandon, Anurag Agarwal
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Setting–Elderly population affected with pulmonary tuberculosis ,hospitalized at a tertiary care teaching hospital in Bareilly ,Uttar Pradesh.
Objective–To evaluate clinical, radiological, microbiological and laboratory parameters of PTB among elderly(>60 years) patients.
Results– There was a male preponderance with mean age of 66.59 years, almost all coming from rural areas, most with no defined source of income (84.72%),with 37.93% and 15.27 having been ever smokers and ever alcoholics and 36.45% afflicted with diabetes. Cough (77%), fever (65%),eathlessness (64%) ,anorexia (37.93%) and weakness ( 27.58% )were the commonest symptoms. 146 patients (71.92%) were microbiologically confirmed with Auramine–o staining. Radiologically Infiltrates were the commonest lesion and there was a upper and mid zone predominance of X–ray lesions. As much as 18% patients had to be prescribed non standard regimens.
Conclusions– Elderly patients of PTB presented with recognized clinical and radiological features of disease, but a fair number had to be prescribed non standard regimens.
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DOI : 10.36106/ijsr
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Rajeev Tandon, Anurag Agarwal, Clinical, Radiological and Microbiological profile of Elderly Pulmonary Tuberculosis patients in Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital at Bareilly (U.P), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-6 | June-2018
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Rajeev Tandon, Anurag Agarwal, Clinical, Radiological and Microbiological profile of Elderly Pulmonary Tuberculosis patients in Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital at Bareilly (U.P), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-6 | June-2018
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