In-hospital outcome of patients with culture-confirmed tuberculous pleurisy: Confirmedlinical impact of pulmonary involvement

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Shu, Chin Chung ^a   Wang, Jann Tay ^a   Wang, Jann Yuan ^a   Lee, Li Na ^a   Yu, Chong Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPUTUM CULTURE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX PAIN; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY; BIOPSY; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PLEURA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLEURA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PLEURAL; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 79951700135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-46     Document Type: Article

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