CLINICO-RADIOLOGICAL PATTERN OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AMONG ELDERLY AND YOUNG ADULTS IN A TERTIARY CARE CENTER.-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

CLINICO-RADIOLOGICAL PATTERN OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AMONG ELDERLY AND YOUNG ADULTS IN A TERTIARY CARE CENTER.

Published:2021-03-01 Issue: Volume: Page:68-69
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Container-title:INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH
language:en
Short-container-title:IJAR

Author:

Damor Neha¹,Kumar Bainara Mahendra²,Chand Prem³

Affiliation:

1. Assistant Professor, Department of Respiratory medicine, TB and Chest Hospital, RNT Medical college, Udaipur( Rajasthan)

2. Professor and HOD, Superintendent, Department of Respiratory medicine, TB and Chest Hospital, RNT Medical college, Udaipur( Rajasthan)

3. Senior Resident, Department of Respiratory medicine, TB and Chest Hospital, RNT Medical college, Udaipur( Rajasthan).

Abstract

Background: Clinical and radiographic manifestation of tuberculosis in elderly patients varies from young adults and not specic, often mistaken with other disease which may cause delay of therapy. For this we conducted study on clinical and radiographic manifestation of pulmonary tuberculosis in elderly patients. This study Methods: analyzed 100 pulmonary tuberculosis cases. We divided these patients in 2 groups i.e young adults (aged <60 years) and elderly(aged ≥60 years). This study was conducted in the Department of TB & Respiratory Diseases, RNT Medical College, Udaipur and analyzed by using Microsoft excel. We found that this study is Result: dominated by male patients. Chest pain, cough, dyspnoea, hemoptysis were found in-signicantly, while expectoration was found signicantly higher in young adults (p < 0.01). Fever was more in young whereas anorexia was more common in elderly group and in physical signs, icterus was found signicantly more in young adults as the p value is <0.05. Radiological bilateral involvement was found more in elderly group compared to adults (p = 0.67). Mixed and upper zone in adult patients consist majority patients. Elderly patients of PTB presented Conclusion: with recognized clinical and radiological features of disease.

Publisher

World Wide Journals

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