background in spite of recent advents, and novel improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis (tb), definitive diagnosis of pulmonary tb in children is problematic. therefore, measurement of the serum level of adenosine deaminase (ada) was later introduced as a helpful marker for the diagnosis of tb. objectives the purpose of this study was to determine the usefulness o...

OBJECTIVE Our main aim was to investigate the effect of dynamic and contrast enhanced CT imaging on differential diagnosis of lung carcinoma, pulmonary tuberculoma, inflammatory pseudotumor, and coexisting pulmonary tuberculosis and lung cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS About, 144 patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis as the study subjects were chosen which included: 36 patients with lung carcinoma...

Khalilzadeh S1, Baghaei N2, Bolorsaz MR1, Masjedi MR3 1. Associate professor, Department of pediatrics, Education, research and treatment center of tuberculosis and long diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of medical sciences 2. Assistant professor, Department of pediatrics, Education, research and treatment center of tuberculosis and long diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of medical s...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The unique immunological functions of γδ T lymphocytes to contribute immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis attracted interest of researchers. However, little is known about the specificity of γδ Τ cell in tuberculosis patients and the lack of exact tuberculosis antigen recognized by γδ T cells limited its application. The analysis of complementary determinant regio...

A 48-year-old male patient presented with dialysis dependent renal failure biopsy showing crescentic glomerulonephritis and Positron emission tomography–computed tomography (PET-CT scan) revealing features of pericardial, pulmonary tuberculosis positive urinary GeneXpert test for bacilli. Clinicians should keep in mind the atypical presentations while managing rapidly progressive especially tro...

OBJECTIVE The identification of behavioral and clinical factors that are associated with pulmonary tuberculosis might improve the detection and treatment of the disease, thereby reducing its duration and transmission. Our objective was to identify sociodemographic, clinical, and behavioral factors that are associated with the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis. METHODS This was a cross-secti...

OBJECTIVE To assess the utility of CT in the evaluation of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients without AIDS. PATIENTS AND METHODS This-section CT scans for suspicion of pulmonary tuberculosis were obtained from 226 patients. A total of 38 patients were excluded; the reasons were unavailability of final results (n = 18), patient unavailability for follow-up (n = 13), and coexistence of tubercul...

of patients with postprimary tuberculosis (1). However, cystic change associated with pulmonary tuberculosis has rarely been reported in radiologic and pathologic studies (2-4). According to these reports, cystic change developed before or during antituberculous chemotherapy in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis that initially presented with acute respiratory failure. Furthermore, these cysti...

This study aims to observe and analyze the diagnostic value of T-cell enzyme linked immunospot assay for tuberculosis infection during diagnosis pulmonary extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The objects were 200 cases patients in outpatient department or inpatient our hospital, including 100 with active tuberculosis, Meanwhile, we selected 90 non disease, nontuberculous disease health examination. tes...