The Impact of Heart Disease on the Characteristics of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: The Extent of Pulmonary Involvement, Evolution under Treatment & Treatment Outcome

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Anass Benali Ismail Abderrahmani Rhorfi Hicham Souhi Hanane El Ouazzani Ahmed Abid

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Anass Benali
Service De Pneumologie, De L’hôpital Militaire D’instruction Mohamed V, Rabat, Morocco

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Methods: We report a retrospective study analysing the characteristics of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis with heart disease and in tuberculosis patients with no obvious history, treated in the pulmonology department between 2017 and June 2020. Results: Tuberculosis patients with heart disease present more extensive forms than patients without a history (p <0.001), with more occurrence of treatment failure and sequelae (p = 0.01), and more risk of death compared to the control group without heart disease but without significant difference compared to the literature. While the two groups did not differ in terms of cure and negativation of bacteriological tests after two months of treatment (p> 0.05). Conclusion: Heart disease has a significant impact on the history of pulmonary tuberculosis therefore they affect the quality of life of patients.

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Received: Wed 26, Aug 2020
Accepted: Tue 13, Oct 2020
Published: Thu 29, Oct 2020

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© 2023 Anass Benali. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JICOA.2020.05.09