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Paediatric Pulmonology and Allergology
2007 April, Vol. X, No. 1 (3511-3516)
EVALUATION OF SEX, AGE, DIAGNOSTIC METHODS AND TIME OF DIAGNOSIS AFTER THE ONSET OF THE SYMPTOMS FOR PATIENTS WITH TB PLEURITIS
Rolandas Zablockis1, Remigijus Valdemaras Nargela1, Arvydas Laurinavicius2, Edvardas Zurauskas2, Iraida Sosnovskaja3, Edita Davidaviciene3
1 Center of Pulmonology and Allergology of Vilnius University Hospital,
2 Vilnius University, National Center of Pathology,
3 National University Hospital of Tuberculosis and Infectious diseases, Vilnius, Lithuania
One hundred patients ill with tuberculous pleuritis were studied. There were 62 men and 38 women from 18 to 88 years old. The women‘s (42±19) and men‘s (46±17) age average was nonsignificantly different. Tuberculous pleuritis was diagnosed on an average 36,74 ± 26,48 days after the onset of the symptoms of disease. We concluded that longer time is needed to diagnose tuberculous pleuritis by the pleural fluid cultures with BACTEC system (50,41±33,11 days) than pleural biopsy histological diagnosis (29,88 ± 20,41 days) or pleural biopsy in combination with pleural fluid cultures with BACTEC system (29,22±15,41 days).