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Berhan A, Almaw A, Solomon Y, Legese B, Damtie S, et al.
…urvival. Therefore, this study aimed to assess Tuberculosis treatment outcomes and associated factors in South Gondar Administrative Zone Governmental Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia, 2023. Method and materials A hospital-based retrospective study was conducted from July 1 to Augus…
Berhan A, Almaw A, Solomon Y, Legese B, Damtie S, et al.
…urvival. Therefore, this study aimed to assess Tuberculosis treatment outcomes and associated factors in South Gondar Administrative Zone Governmental Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia, 2023. Method and Materials A hospital-based retrospective study was conducted from July 1 to Augus…
Eliza Miranda Ramos, Carolina Braga Sisti, Sérgio Beltrão de Andrade Lima, Emerson Luiz Lima Araújo, Lúcia Dias da Silva Guerra, et al.
…e HP in South America, highlighting factors associated with treatment abandonment and mortality. **METHODS:** Scientific articles were searched in PubMed, EMBASE, LILACS, SciELO, Web of Science, and Cochrane databases, published in Portuguese, English, or Spanish between 2013 an…
Kshitij Agarwal, Adam T Gray, Tudor P Toma, Valentina Luzzi, Lorenzo Corbetta
…larly in the context of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and TB-HIV co-infection. Traditional surgical interventions, such as lung resection and pneumothorax induction, have largely been phased out with the advent of modern antibiotic regimens. However, emerging evidence suggests …
Eloise T. M. Filardi, Roberto Carlos Cruz Carbonell, Fernando R. Pavan, Felipe A. Cerni, Manuela B. Pucca
… by fear and social stigma (13). In the absence of specific treatments, therapeutic approaches were largely palliative and of limited efficacy. In that time, the main strategy for managing patients consisted of isolation in sanatoria, institutions typically built in locations con…
Gabriela Pizarro Ossa Ferro Henriques, Guilherme Barbosa Pinto, Erika Yukie Ishigaki, Nicoly Caroline de Andrade Delmondes, Daniel Ayabe Ninomiya, et al.
… health concern globally and in Brazil. Although ambulatory treatment is recommended for most patients, hospitalizations still occur due to severe clinical presentations, social vulnerability, or treatment complications. **METHODS:** We conducted a retrospective, observational s…
Ana Carolina Pereira de Castro, Evandro Carlos Martinho da Fonte, Livia Heloisa de Freitas, Renata Pires Arruda Faggion, Fernanda Maria Bajos Conrado Aguiar, et al.
…lture, 54.5% rifampicin-sensitive molecular test, and 16.4% TB-HIV coinfection. Only 10.9% of coinfected patients were on antiretroviral therapy. Drug resistance occurred in 3.6% of cases. Outcomes included cure in 26.4%, transfer in 16.4%, death from other causes in 5.5%, and tr…
Mariana Fernandes Lucena Vaz-Curado, Ana Angélica Bulcão Portela Lindoso
…ulosis (DR-TB) in Brazil reflects failures in diagnosis and treatment, and the impact of social determinants of health, such as poverty, low educational level, and social vulnerability. With high rates of treatment interruption and unfavorable outcomes, understanding the epidemio…
de Oliveira MCB, Sant'Anna CC, Raggio Luiz R, Kritski AL
…em. We aimed to analyze the risk factors for unfavorable TB treatment outcomes among adolescents in Rio de Janeiro, a Brazilian city with a high burden of TB. This is a retrospective study of adolescents (10-18 years) with TB notified in Rio de Janeiro, from four national databas…
Sebastião CS, Samulengo J, Sacomboio E, Francisco NM, Teixeira C, et al.
…oreover, we examined the evidence-based indications for the treatment of active TB in Angola. This study evaluated the medical records of 176 patients screened for TB from January to September 2016 in Luanda, the capital city of Angola. Approximately 66.5% of the patients were ne…
Belew H, Wubie M, Tizazu G, Bitew A, Birlew T
…uberculosis infection among adults visiting anti-retroviral treatment center in East and West Gojjam, northwest, Ethiopia. Methods Institution based unmatched case-control study was employed to determine the predictors of tuberculosis infection among adults visiting anti-retrovir…
Prommongkol B, Putcharoen O, Patamatamkul S
… rates of TB among PWH during the COVID-19 pandemic, and on treatment outcomes in TB-HIV co-infections. Methods A retrospective study was conducted at Suddhavej Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Mahasarakham University, Maha Sarakham, Thailand, from January 2020 to September 2023, i…
Shixiong He, Changjiao Luan, Jiaqi Gao, Feng Lu, Fang Tian, et al.
…o-infected with HIV, and the risk of death in patients with TB-HIV co-infections with HIV is three times higher than in patients with TB alone. Such co-infections significantly increase the complexity of the disease and the difficulty of diagnosis and treatment, and may further e…
Emílio Alves Miranda, Hélina Augusta Marques Barbosa Pessoa, Seyssa Cristina Pereira e Silva Cintra, Adriana Pereira Roncato, João Alves de Araújo Filho
… years. Test implementation allowed immediate initiation of treatment and notification in SINAN, contributing to continuity of the care cascade. The introduction of the LF-LAM test in specialized services in Goiás proved effective for timely TB diagnosis in PLHIV with advanced im…
Rafael Laniado-Laborín
…r for developing active tuberculosis, while M. tuberculosis coinfection leads to increased viral replication and disease progression. Clinical presentation will vary depending on the degree of immunodeficiency. Patients with higher CD4 cell counts can present with the classic sym…
Rajendra Babu Mathur, Uma Shankar Shukla, Hemant Kumar Bindal
…y 255 cases (14.01%) that were smear negative. Author found TB-HIV coinfection rate of 18.75%.Conclusions: Author found CBNAAT to be an important diagnostic modality especially in smear negative patients for early diagnosis and treatment. Author could detect Mycobacterium Tubercu…
Zemariam AB, Anlay DZ, Alamaw AW, Abebe GK, Techane MA
…d Health Organization clinical staging, females, those with TB-HIV co-infection, and those receiving stavudine- and zidovudine-based initial regimens to reduce the incidence of major ADRs.
Tata Gloria Berinyuy, Diderot Fopa, Fabo Yatchou Sosthene, Matcha Fotso Laetitia, Mme. Kamdjeu Rita, et al.
…2%) were HIV/TB co-infected. IFN- levels were higher in the TB-HIV co-infected group (7.24pg/ml ± 6,9) and the TB mono-infected group (4.11pg/ml ± 3.02) as compared to healthy controls (3.31 ± 2.14). In TB patients, a negative correlation was observed between the IFN- levels and …
Negussie A, Debalke D, Belachew T, Tadesse F
… and analyzing patient case files from the anti-retro viral treatment (ART) clinic of Yirgalem General Hospital, southern Ethiopia. Results Of the total PLWHAs involved in the study, 51 (36.9%) of them were found to have TB, and of which, 37 (72.5%) were smear negative cases. The…