1. Extremely high levels of central nervous system involvement in miliary tuberculosis
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Guirong Wang, Ruixia Liang, Qing Sun, Xinlei Liao, Chenqian Wang, and Hairong Huang
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Central nervous system ,Cerebrospinal fluid ,Miliary ,Tuberculosis ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 - Abstract
Abstract Background Miliary tuberculosis (TB) is one of the severest manifestations of TB that can be lethal when concomitant with the central nervous system (CNS) involvement. Bacteriological, biochemical and radiological methods for find CNS comorbidity in miliary TB was evaluated in this study. Methods Consecutive miliary TB adults were retrospectively enrolled from two designated TB hospitals in China. The capacities of examinations of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), cerebral computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for diagnosis of CNS involvement were assessed. Results Assessment of CNS involvement with a lumbar puncture and/or neuroimaging was undertaken in 282 out of 392 of acute miliary TB. Of these 282 patients, 87.59% (247/282) had CNS involvement. Cerebral contrast-enhanced MRI (96.05%, 170/177) and MRI (93.15%, 204/219) yielded significantly higher sensitivities over CSF examination (71.92%, 146/203, P
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- 2022
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