104 patients with clinical features of pulmonary tuberculosis patients aged.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 7 104 patients with clinical features of pulmonary tuberculosis patients aged [Abstract] Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics of elderly patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, to improve the understanding of this disease and help develop and implement effective control measures. Methods 104 patients in our hospital clinical data of patients with senile pulmonary tuberculosis were analyzed retrospectively. Results 104 elderly patients with pulmonary TB patients with sputum positive rate 56.94%, PPD test was positive rate of 15.71%, complications or other diseases associated with 86 cases, accounting for 82.7%. Conclusions Elderly tuberculosis complex clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment more difficult, the prognosis poor, prevention, early diagnosis, a reasonable and timely treatment is crucial. [Keywords:] TB diagnosis and treatment of senile Tuberculosis (TB is a common respiratory infectious diseases, and the contemporary global TB epidemic is a widespread phenomenon and characteristics of old tuberculosis (PTB in the gradual increase in the age structure than the country in 1979, 1999, 2000, three surveys were gradually to the trend over age group. Therefore, the clinical analysis of pulmonary tuberculosis in elderly will help develop and implement effective control measures. now January 2008 -2010 Ma in August in the city People’s Hospital of tuberculosis infection in the elderly inpatient data analysis were as follows. 1 Subjects and methods 1.1 Clinical data were 104 patients in our hospital in January 2008 -2010 admitted in August of elderly hospitalized patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. 82 cases were male and 22 females, aged 60-80 years, mean 70 years, including the slow development of old PTB And hidden in 71 cases. 1.2 Diagnosis Diagnosis is based on the elderly pulmonary tuberculosis mainly relies on clinical symptoms, chest X-ray, sputum examination and other ancillar