background: lower lung field tuberculosis is atypical presentation of pulmonary tuberculosis which often causes confusion in diagnosis. hiv/aids epidemic has considerably increased its incidence. this study was designed to identify the prevalence and different clinical conditions of lung tuberculosis in conjunction with its common clinical and radiological presentations and its treatment.   met...

a 24‑year‑old, unmarried woman diagnosed of pulmonary tuberculosis (ptb) visited our hospital out‑patient department in the month of august‑2013. patient came with the complaint of sever cough with expectoration; evening raise of temperature; gradual loss of appetite and weight since 2‑weeks. we referred the patient to our hospital’s revised national tuberculosis program, direct observed treatm...

AbstractChronic sialadenitis is a disease of salivary glands associated with chronic infections,systemic diseases and silolithiasis pathogenesis of the disease. Primary tuberculoussubmandibulitis is not a reported disease. The diagnosis was confirmed whena 45 years old lady suspicious to submandibular gland tumor was operated on for excisionalbiopsy. Histological examination of the specimen by ...

this study was designed to find out the impact of the variable number of tandem repeats (vntr) of the tumor necrosis factor receptor 2 (tnfrsf1b) on pulmonary tuberculosis (ptb) risk in an iranian population. this case-control study was done on 159 ptb patients and 158 healthy subjects. bi-allelic tnfrsf1b vntr was genotyped by polymerase chain reaction. logistic regression analysis revealed no...

most people infected with m .tuberculosis do not develop active disease. in healthy individuals, the lifetime risk of developing infection to disease is 5-10%. reactivation of tb often occurs in older children and adolescent and is more common in patients who acquire tb at age 7 years and older. pulmonary tuberculosis may manifest in several forms, including endobronchial tb with focal lymphade...

background: this study was conducted to detect clusters of pulmonary tb cases in hamadan province, west of iran. methods: all patients with pulmonary tuberculosis recorded in the surveillance system from 2005 to 2013 were studied. the spatial scan statistic was used to detect significant clusters in status of unadjusted and adjusted for age, sex and location residence variables. results: cluste...

elderly, due to immunosuppression caused by predisposing factors such as age, drugs, underlying diseases or malnutrition, is a risk factor for pulmonary tuberculosis (ptb).aged patients with ptb because of difficulty in diagnosis remain undiagnosed and acts as a source of infection in occupational space of health service units. general physicians (gp) as health care workers (hcw) are concerned ...

background and objectives: sputum smear staining for acid-fast bacilli is initial approach to the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (ptb) but more than 50% of cases are sputum smear-negative. this study was aimed to investigate the diagnostic value of fiberoptic bronchoscopy (fob) guided bronchoalveolar lavage (bal) in patients suspected to have tuberculosis. methods: this prospective cross-s...

background: pulmonary tuberculosis is still the most common form of tuberculosis in hiv infected patients having differ­ent presentations according to the degree of immunosuppression. this study appraised the impact of hiv infection on clini­cal, laboratory and radiological presentations of tuberculosis. methods: the clinical, laboratory and radiological presentations of pulmonary tb in 56 hiv-...

background tuberculosis (tb) is a globally significant cause of morbidity and mortality in children. few data on tuberculosis in children and adolescents are available in iran. objectives the current study aimed to describe the case characteristics and clinical-epidemiological aspects of children and adolescents with tb. methods a retrospective review was undertaken on 203 patients aged less th...