Cryptic Disseminated Tuberculosis: a Secondary Analysis of Previous Hospital-Based Study.
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: BACKGROUND: The main purpose of this study was to describe the demographic and clinical features of cryptic disseminated TB; it was also aimed to shed light on diagnostic test, procedure results, organ involvement, and outcomes of cryptic disseminated TB in patients with confirmed disseminated TB. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We performed a secondary post hoc analysis of collected data from our previous study entitled "Disseminated Tuberculosis among Adult Patients Admitted to Hamad General Hospital, Qatar: A Five-Year Hospital-Based Study" with modified objectives. This study included patients admitted from January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2010. RESULTS: . All except one patient completed their treatment in Qatar. One patient died one month after the start of antituberculous treatment. CONCLUSION: Cryptic disseminated TB should be suspected when a patient from TB-endemic countries develops unexplained fever and cough despite normal or non-miliary pattern chest radiograph. Moreover, respiratory specimen cultures should be obtained from these patients, regardless of the symptoms presented and the initial site of the involved organ.
Source: PubMed
Author: Fahmi Yousef Khan
Institutions: Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3093733771