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Table of Content Volume 6 Issue 1 - April 2018
A study of tuberculosis cases diagnosed at a tertiary health care centre
Herkar Ravindra Shivraj1, Nilesh Bendale2*
1Assistant Professor, 2Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Dr. Ulhas Patil Medical College, Jalgaon, Maharashtra. Email: rsherkar8919@gmail.com
Abstract Background: Tuberculosis is an important public health problem in India and other developing countries. It is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis affects virtually each and every system of body. Aim and Objective: To study the epidemiology of tuberculosis cases diagnosed at tertiary health care centre. Methodology: Patients diagnosed as a case of tuberculosis in the tertiary care center were studied. Data collection includes socio-demographic data, clinical data like category of patient, investigations and treatment received. Results and Discussion: Majority of patients were in age group 21-40 years (45.51%). Male to female ratio in our study was 1.78. Eighty-five percent patients were classified as new patients. Failure and defaulter constitute 15.87% of total cases. Out of 145 patients 100 (68.96%) were sputum negative. 58.62% patients were having extra-pulmonary TB 41.38% patients were of pulmonary TB. Key Word: Tuberculosis. Jalgoan.
India is the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden country accounting for a quarter (26%) of the global incidence1. According to WHO in 2011, there were estimated 8.7 million new cases of tuberculosis and 1.4 million people died from tuberculosis worldwide2 Tuberculosis remains the leading infectious cause of death in India, killing close to 500,000 people a year. High prevalence and incidence of disease and a high rate of transmission of infection characterize the tuberculosis (TB) situation in India. Information on the epidemiological situation of tuberculosis (TB) in the community is vital for planning control strategies and monitoring the impact of intervention programmes. Very few studies are available on epidemiology of TB in tertiary care center’s so this study was done.
MATERIAL AND METHODS We conducted the present record based study in Dr. Ulhas Patil Medical College, Jalgaon, a tertiary health care centre. To achieve the above mentioned objective, patients diagnosed as a case of tuberculosis iln the tertiary care center were studied. Data collection includes socio-demographic data, clinical data like category of patient, investigations and treatment received. Study was approved by ethical committee of the institute.
RESULTS
Table 1: Distribution of patients according to age
Table 1 shows distribution of patients according to age. It was observed that majority of patients were in age group 21-40 years (45.51%) followed by 41-60 years (28.28%). Mean age of patient was 36.82± 5.23 years.
Figure 1: Distribution of patients according to age
Table 2: Distribution of patients according to sex:
The above table shows distribution of patients according to sex. It was observed that majority of patients were in male (64.14%) and females were 35.86%.
Table 3: Distribution of patients according to residence
Majority of the patients were from rural area (69.66%).
Table 4: Distribution of patients according to category:
Out of 145 patients 122 (84.13%) patients were categorized as category I. Remaining 23 were category II.
Table 5: Distribution of patients according to type
Table 6 shows distribution of patients according to their type of nomenclature. Majority (84.13 %) patients were classified as New patients. Out of total 145 cases 4 cases were failure for the treatment and 19 (13.1%) patients were defaulters. Table 6: Distribution of patients according to result of sputum
Reports from the sputum revealed that out of 145 patients 100 (68.96%)were sputum negative. 4 patients showed scanty mycobacteria on ZN staining. 26 patients (17.93%) were categorized under 1+ grade for mycobacteria while 7 (4.83%) 8 (5.52%) were categorized respectively under grade 2+ 3+. Patients were followed up after 5 months. Out of total 145 patients 6 patients expired. One patient refused treatment. From the remaining patients 131 were receiving treatment from a DOTS center and 7 were receiving from private practitioner. Out of 6 expired patients 3 patients were extra-pulmonary and 3 were of pulmonary TB. One patient was from category II.
DISCUSSION It was observed that majority of patients were in age group 21-40 years (45.51%). Similar findings were observed in previous studies. (3,4,5,6,7)Male to female ratio in our study was 1.78 similarly Chandrashekhar et al observed ratio of 2.29 in their study in pulmonary TB patients. Majority of the patients were from rural area(69.66%).8 In our study (84.13 %) patients were categorized as category I. Majority (84.13 %) patients were classified as New patients. Similarily Umesh Chandra et al observed that New cases constitute the highest proportion of tuberculosis patients. They found 71% cases in rural area and 74.5% cases in urban belong to new cases.(3)Studies conducted earlier had shown that New cases were the predominate category of patients.(4,9,11) The result indicate that the cumulative number of TB cases is still rising. Failure and defaulter constitute 15.87% of total cases. Similar findings observed in Umesh Chandra et al where the relapse cases and defaulters together constitute 23.5% of the total cases.(3) Earlier studies have also shown similar findings.4 Out of 145 patients 100 (68.96%) were sputum negative. In contrast to our study previous studies observed sputum positive TB is more common4,5,7,11. Difference in observation is because of more prevalence of extra-pulmonary cases. As our study center is tertiary care center most complicated and referred patients were seen. In our study it was observed that 85(58.62%) patients were having extra-pulmonary TB while 60 (41.38%) patients were of pulmonary TB. Chandrashekhar et al observed 48.5% as extra-pulmonary TB and 51.5% as pulmonary TB.8
CONCLUSION Middle aged group is more affected in tuberculosis. New cases form majority contribution in tuberculosis.
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