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Oliveira,Suzana Batista Vereza de; Passos,Ângelo Ferreira; Hadad,David Jamil; Zbyszynski,Lorena; Sousa de Almeida Júnior,Pedro; Castellani,Luiz Guilherme Schmidt; Dietze,Reynaldo; Palaci,Moisés. |
ABSTRACT Tuberculosis is an infectious disease of global importance with major economic and social burden accounting for 25% of all avoidable deaths in developing countries. Extrapulmonary involvement may occur either in association with clinically apparent pulmonary tuberculosis or in isolation. This cross-sectional descriptive study aimed to evaluate the impact of ocular tuberculosis in visual acuity at baseline and after two months of intensive anti-tuberculous therapy. A sample of 133 pulmonary tuberculosis patients, seven disseminated tuberculosis, and three pleural tuberculosis patients was evaluated. All patients underwent routine ophthalmic evaluation, including assessment of visual acuity, biomicroscopy, applanation tonometry, indirect... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Tuberculosis; Eye; Visual acuity; Treatment. |
Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702018000300159 |
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