tailieunhanh - C-Reactive Protein in Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis

The Figure shows that incidence rates decreased after – years since immigration for immigrants from most of the countries. Subsequently, the incidence rates were mostly stable from to years since immigration for the countries with initial incidence rates above or around 50/100,000 (as a general rule, immigrants from countries with incidence rates above this level are eligible for screening). African immigrants, especially Somalis, had the highest incidence rates. Since few Somalis immigrated before 1991, the observed increase in incidence rates years after immigration has wide confidence intervals. In contrast to the incidence rates for most of the countries, incidence rates for immigrants from Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles were initially. | World Applied Sciences Journal 17 2 140-144 2012 ISSN 1818-4952 IDOSI Publications 2012 C-Reactive Protein in Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis Muhammed Khalid Shaikh 2Javed Akhtar Samo 3Bikha Ram Devrajani Syed Zulfiquar Ali Shah Samina Shaikh and Imran Shaikh Department of Medicine Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences LUMHS Jamshoro Pakistan 2Ghulam Muhammad Mahar Medical College GMMMC Sukkur Sindh Pakistan 3Director Medical Research Center Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences LUMHS Jamshoro Pakistan Abstract The present study was conducted to evaluate the C-reactive protein CRP in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis at Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad Pakistan. All patients with pulmonary tuberculosis 12 years of age of either gender were evaluated for their serum CRP level. During twelve months study period 127 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis were evaluated for CRP level of which 76 60 were males and 51 40 were females. The observed symptoms were cough and expectoration 115 91 weakness and constant fatigue 92 72 weight loss 110 86 fever 90 71 night sweats 85 67 chest pain 95 75 coughing up blood 98 77 loss of appetite 88 69 headache 102 80 and combined mixed symptoms 100 79 . The overall mean CRP in patients with TB was where as it was and in male and female subjects respectively. The mean SD of normal and raised serum CRP was and p . The complications observed in patients with raised serum CRP were pneumothorax 04 fibrosis 08 miliary TB 06 7 empyema 10 fungal colonization within tuberculous cavity 09 bronchiectasis 11 more than 01 complication 11 and Nil 19 . The present study detected elevation of CRP in pulmonary tuberculosis and a high CRP is clearly associated with more severe disease. Key words Tuberculosis Pulmonary C-Reactive Protein INTRODUCTION Tuberculosis MTB or TB short for tubercle bacillus is a common and in many .