RENTHENOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HIV-INFECTION COMBINED WITH TUBERCULOSIS. MAIN CAUSES OF MORTALITY

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to analyze the X-ray and some laboratory changes of the groups of patients with HIV-infection combined with tuberculosis (TB) and TB monoinfection, as well as to determine the main causes of the mortality of such patients.

Patients and methods. We examined 351 patients, in particular 217 HIV/TB-related infections and 134 cases of tuberculosis only. The HIV/TB group was divided into 3 subgroups depending on the time of TB attachment to HIV infection.

Results. The most striking clinical symptomatology is typical for HIV/TB infected patients, compared to patients with TB alone. Persons with associated HIV/TB infection also differed from patients with TB only with a lack of changes in the X-ray of the thoracic cavity.

Drug resistance to one anti-TB drug is significantly more commonly found in the group with the associated infection. The same pattern is noted for subgroup 1 and 3 of HIV/TB.

The percentage of mortality from infiltrative TB for all those who died from the primary TB for associated HIV/TB infection is significantly higher than for patients with TB alone. With focal TB, caseous pneumonia, disseminated, generalized and extrapulmonary TB there is a tendency towards higher mortality in case of concomitant HIV infection. Probably this is due to the prescription of TB and a fairly large affection of the pulmonary tissue. In general, patients with HIV/TB died significantly more often than patients with TB monoinfection.

Conclusions. Individuals with associated HIV/TB infection differed from patients with TB only with brighter clinical symptoms, a significantly greater absence of changes in the X-ray of the chest cavity, drug resistance to one anti-TB drug and significantly higher mortality.