Renal tuberculosis in the modern era.
Am J Trop Med Hyg
; 88(1): 54-64, 2013 Jan.
Article
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| ID: mdl-23303798
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The disease remains as an important public health problem in developing countries. Extrapulmonary TB became more common with the advent of infection with human immunodeficiency virus and by the increase in the number of organ transplantation, which also leads to immunosuppression of thousand of persons. Urogenital TB represents 27% of extrapulmonary cases. Renal involvement in TB can be part of a disseminated infection or a localized genitourinary disease. Renal involvement by TB infection is underdiagnosed in most health care centers. Most patients with renal TB have sterile pyuria, which can be accompanied by microscopic hematuria. The diagnosis of urinary tract TB is based on the finding of pyuria in the absence of common bacterial infection. The first choice drugs include isoniazide, rifampicin, pirazinamide, ethambutol, and streptomycin. Awareness of renal TB is urgently needed by physicians for suspecting this disease in patients with unexplained urinary tract abnormalities, mainly in those with any immunosuppression and those coming from TB-endemic areas.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Tuberculosis Renal
Tipo de estudio:
Incidence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Am J Trop Med Hyg
Año:
2013
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Brasil
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos