A STUDY TO COMPARE THE CLINICAL FEATURES BETWEEN POST PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATED CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD) WITH OTHER COPD PATIENTS
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 95
Abstract
BACKGROUND India is the highest TB burden country in the world and patients with treated TB may remain life-long sufferers of disabling sequelae. Many studies have shown that treated pulmonary tuberculosis can result in airflow obstruction. This study was designed to analyse the risk of Tuberculosis associated with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS The patients of stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases will be picked up from outpatient and inpatient sections of the hospital at random. These COPD patients were divided into TB-associated COPD (only if their symptom of COPD started after the episode of pulmonary TB) and non-tubercular COPD group. RESULTS One hundred and thirty eight patients with COPD were enrolled during the study period. There were 107 males (77.5%) and 31 (22.4%) females. Of the total COPD patients, 58 (42.03%) had past history of pulmonary tuberculosis treatment. TB associated COPD were younger in age as compared to non-TB COPD group. This study also revealed that clinical symptoms of COPD are similar in both groups, except high percentage of haemoptysis in TB associated COPD group. On comparison, FEV1/ FVC ratio in both groups were almost similar. CONCLUSION The present study highlighted that pulmonary tuberculosis is definitely associated with pulmonary damage and constitutes a significant proportion of COPD patients
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Saurabh Aggarwal, Brijesh Kumar, Sanjay Kumar Verma, Darshan Bajaj, Anand Kumar, Surya Kant, Rajendra Prasad, Ashok Kumar Singh
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