Tuberculosis Pulmonar en el Lactante

Véjar, Leonardo; Solar, Eric; Matte, R; Puentes, R

doi:10.4067/s0370-41061982000100061

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“…Basandose en nuestra revision, en el area suroriente de Santiago 1985 la tasa correspondio a 9,9°/oo. La asociacion de tuberculosis y desnutricion es un hecho descrito por otros autores 8 . La proportion de desnutridos entre nuestros pacientes fue de 28%, siendo la del area de salud, en el mismo periodo, de 16,5% en menores de 6 anos (no se dispone de cifras de desnutricion en escolares).…”

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Tuberculosis en niños

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1988

Rev. chil. pediatr.

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Child tuberculosis in south-east SantiagoTwenty two cases of tuberculosis (TB) in children along 1985 at south-east Santiago were retrospectivelly analized. There were 4 cases of extrapulmonary primary locations: 2 renal and 2 mcningeal TB. All four patient had scars of previous BCG vaccination. Thirteen asymptomatic patients were detected at screening procedures for contacts of active TB cases. In 7 of 18 cases with lung TB tubercle bacilli was isolated from sputum or gastric aspirate, In 5 of 17 cases of lung TB chest films including three patients with positive cultures for tubercle bacilli and other two that were diagnosed by positive P.P.D. (2 U) reactions. Treatment was done in accordance to national recomendations and all patients responded to it. Only one case of meningeal TB showed mild neurological sequelae. (

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