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Provedor de dados: | 55
País: | Brazil
Título: | Clinical and radiological analysis of children and adolescents with tuberculosis in Bahia, Brazil
Autores: | Franco,Rosana; Santana,Maria Angélica; Matos,Eliana; Sousa,Virgínia; Lemos,Antônio Carlos M.
Data: | 2003-02-01
Ano: | 2003
Palavras-chave: | Tuberculosis; Children; Radiology; Chest x-ray.
Resumo: | We reviewed the clinical and radiological characteristics of tuberculosis (TB) in children and adolescents at the Hospital Especializado Octávio Mangabeira, (HEOM) in Salvador, Bahia. This study included 275 TB patients aged 1 to 15 years seen between January 1990 and November 2001. Standardized forms were filled out on the basis of a review of patient records and x-rays. Through a retrospective and descriptive analysis, it was found that 51.6% were male, 35.3% were aged 1 to 5 years, 28% were aged 6 to 10 and 36.7% were aged 11 to 15. Among all patients, 79.6% lived in the city of Salvador. A history of contact with TB was found in 63.9%, most frequently among children under 5 years old; 77.2% were vaccinated with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG). The most frequently observed symptoms were coughing (76%), fever (73.1%) weight loss (53.1%), and 4.7% were asymptomatic. Pulmonary TB was most frequent (57.8%) and extra-pulmonary TB occurred in 24.4%, with a predominance of hilar adenopathy. Both forms occurred simultaneously in 17.8%. In 53.1% of the cases the diagnosis was not determined by bacteriology or pathological anatomy; in these cases diagnosis was reached through clinical and radiological criteria, contact history, a tuberculin test &gt;10mm and a positive response to tuberculostatic drugs.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702003000100009
Editor: | Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
Relação: | 10.1590/S1413-86702003000100009
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.7 n.1 2003
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess