DIAGNOSIS METHODS IN THE FORMS OF ACTIVE PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
Abstract:
The study herein aims at investigating the active forms of pulmonary tuberculosis, an idea sprung from the high incidence of the infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis in various parts of the world. From this standpoint, to rapidly and correctly determine the diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis is very important. In this context, there were investigated symptomatic patients who came for consultation at the specialized physicians of the TB Clinic of Braşov, during the first quarter of the year 2011. After studying the medical history, they were imagistically investigated, by effectuating the standard chest X-ray. In circumstances where the radiological aspect pleads for one of the forms of active pulmonary tuberculosis, the bacteriological examination of the sputum followed next, directly and in culture. Once confirmed the diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis, by corroborating the results of these investigations, the symptomatic patient who was diagnosed to have been contaminated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, will be hospitalized. He/she will be applied the appropriate treatment regimen, to healing purposes, for social reintegration as soon as possible.
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