Clinical profile of patients diagnosed with tuberculosis treated at theUniversity Hospital of Londrina, Paraná

Semina: Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde

Daniele Sapede Alvarenga¹  Luiz Antonio Custodio¹  Suelen Santos Silva¹  Idessania Nazareth Costa¹  Bruno Bevenuto Lucas¹  Ivete Conchon-Costa¹  Francine Nesello Melanda¹  Milena Mengazzo Miranda-Sapla¹  Larissa Rodrigues Bosqui¹  Raquel Arruda Sanfelice¹  Wander Rogerio Pavanelli¹  Laís Fernanda Machado¹ 

[1] Universidade Estadual de Londrina;

关键词: Tuberculose;    Saúde pública;    Epidemiologia;   

DOI  :  10.5433/1679-0367.2017v38n1p89

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The objective of this study was to analyze the clinical profileof patients positive for tuberculosis through an epidemiological study, descriptive and retrospective, based on secondary data contained in medical records of patients that attended the Hospital Universitário de Londrina comprising from January 2010 to December 2014. From the medical records available for analysis at the moment of study 86 cases were positive for tuberculosis, being the majority male (65/76%) with age group comprised between 2 to 91 years. The main symptoms presented were cough (50/58%), fever (45/52%) and weight loss (34/40%). Regarding the clinical form, 58/67% of the patients presented the pulmonary form, and 28/33% the non-pulmonary form. Positive cases for tuberculosis in association with HIV/AIDS corresponded to 32/37%. Harmful habits were also reported in patients in which 30/34% were smokers, 20/23% drug users and 14/16% were alcoholics. Against scarcity of published data referring to tuberculosis in our region and its relevance to public health, our study contributes to the epidemiological aspects mainly in relation to the high number of cases of coinfection with Human ImmunodeficiencyVirus and patients with evolution to death, assisting the development and implementation of campaigns or projects aimed at early diagnosis and treatment.

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