TO ASSESS THE RESPONSE AND OUTCOME OF THE TB PATIENTS REGISTERED AT DTC REWA OF CENTRAL INDIA
| Autor: | Anjana Niranjan, Sanjeev Sharma, Achala Jain, Pahram Adhikari, Seema Patel, Rohit Trivedi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Cure rate
medicine.medical_specialty Tuberculosis biology medicine.drug_class business.industry Antibiotics medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Mycobacterium tuberculosis Pulmonary tuberculosis Internal medicine medicine Sputum Population study medicine.symptom Treatment completed business |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Medical and Biomedical Studies. 4 |
| ISSN: | 2589-8698 2589-868X |
| DOI: | 10.32553/ijmbs.v4i2.934 |
| Popis: | Background-Tuberculosis is a highly infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The disease primarily affects lungs so it known as Pulmonary TB and other tissues of the body which is known as Extra-pulmonary TB. The vast majority of TB deaths are in the developing world left untreated, Tuberculosis is treatable with a course of antibiotics. The most successful strategy to treat TB patients is DOTS. Material and Method: This is a Prospective Longitudinal study conducted among the patients attending DOTS center of DTC located at S.G.M.H. campus Rewa for the Treatment provided under of a definitive time period ( as per RNTCP, last quarter of 2014) from 1st Oct to 31st Dec 2014. Aim & Objective: 1. To observe the sputum conversion rate of study population. 2. To find out the outcome of treatment. Result: 69.92%were pulmonary tuberculosis and 30.07% was Extra-pulmonary tuberculosis and sputum conversion rate of Pulmonary TB cases at the end of IP in new sputum smear positive cases was 96.66% but at the end of 5 month it was 100%. In retreatment cases Sputum Conversion rate at the end of IP was 89.28% and at the end of 5 month 92.85%.and overall treatment success rate were 90.97%. Conclusion: At the end of treatment as per DOTS schedules sputum smear examination is mandatory to know the exact treatment cure rate. Key words: Pulmonary, Extra-Pulmonary, Sputum Conversion, cured, Treatment completed, Defaulter etc. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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