Characteristics and Pattern of Tuberculosis among Patients Presented at One of Tertiary Care Hospital Peshawar, Pakistan

Pulmonary tuberculosis is an air born infection disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality particularly in developing countries (1-3).There are 33 million cases of TB worldwide, 3 million annual death and 8 million persons developed active TB every year ¾ of which concentrated of productive age group (4). If TB is detected early and fully treated, people with the disease quickly become non-infectious and eventually cured. However multi-drug resistance TB, HIV associated TB and weak health system are the major challenges. WHO is making an effort to dramatically reduce the broken of TB and to half TB death and prevalence by 2015 through its stop TB strategy and supporting the global plan to stop TB (5). The promotion diagnosis of TB is essential for community public health infection control measure as well as for ensuring the appropriate therapy for infected patient unfortunately Acid Fast bacilli are found in the sputum in a limited numbers of patient with active Pul-TB (6). Therefore the imagine diagnosis would provide an appropriate therapy for infected patient before the definitive diagnosis by the bacteriology. A descriptive study was carried out on patients attending the Pulmonology Department of Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar, Pakistan from 13 January to 15 April 2013. The study was approved by Ethical Committee of Jinnah Medical College, reregistered Pakistan Medical & Dental Council. Patient diagnosed as case of pulmonary tuberculosis of both genders and above age of 13 year was included in the study. Patient suffering from extra pulmonary tuberculosis, treatment failure relapse drug resistance Tuberculosis and HIV responsible present were excluded from the study. All the subjects suffering from symptoms and sign suggestive of pulmonary tuberculosis were subject for X-ray chest PA view and other view and other related investigation for the diagnosis of tuberculosis. The tuberculosis lesion was classified according to the site of lesion (Unilateral or Bilateral). The study was consisted of 100 patients (Male 54 and female 46). The study showed that that unilateral involvement of the lungs was more common among the patient than the left involvement. Out of 54 male patients there were 34 patients with right unilateral involvement and 20 were left involvement. In female out of 46 patients 40 patients were right side involvement than 6 patients with left side. So involvement of lungs is more common in right side. Out of 54 patients 34 were unilateral …