Tuberculose pulmonar: Grau de extensÃo da lesÃo inicial e final na radiografia e associaÃÃo com alteraÃÃo espiromÃtrica

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

Tuberculosis (TB) remains as one of the most threatening problems of public health. Despite all technology available, its diagnosis is still late done, on account of many factors, like the ones related to the health service and the ones inherent to the own patient. As for the Pulmonary Tuberculosis, many things have been written about the unfavorable outcomes of its treatment, especially emphasizing death, collapse and abandonment of it. There are relatively few studies in medical literature approaching the sequels of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, even after the bacteriological healing, reached by the treatment. The degree of extent of the wound seems to depend directly on the convenient time of the diagnosis and the institution of therapeutics. The several pleuro-pulmonary residual wounds are present from the beginning of its formation to their harmful consequences to the life quality of the patients. Sometimes, the resulting incapacity for working and the treatment gave to the incidents represent a great charge for the Society and the State. Moreover, these sequels bring about personal consequences like: low self-esteem, limitations in professional life and even difficulties of acquaintanceship. The aim of this review is to describe the radiographic patterns of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and its sequels

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alteraÃÃo espirometria pulmÃo tuberculose fibrose pulmonar medicina

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