Efficacy of interventional bronchoscopy in treatment of 76 patients with tracheobronchial tuberculosis / 实用医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective This study investigated the use of interventional bronchoscopic techniques in management of patients with tracheobronchial tuberculosis.Methods In this retrospective study,we analyzed the clinical data of 76 patients with endobronchial tuberculosis.All patients underwent bronchoscopy examination and diagnosed by pathology.According to different treatments,the patients were divided into two groups,the observation group (56 cases) adopted by bronchoscopy and chemotherapy and the control group (20 cases) adopted by chemotherapy only.The general features,treatment effectiveness in the two groups were compared and analyzed.Results Compared with the control group,the sputum negative rate,the recovery rate of symptom,and the total effective rate were higher (P ＜ 0.05).No severe side effects were found in the two groups.There was a positive relationship among frequency of bronchoscopy,the area of lesion (r =0.296,P =0.025 ＜ 0.05) and the type of histology (r =0.323,P =0.014 ＜ 0.05).Conclusions It is concluded that interventional bronchoseopic techniques are useful in management of patients with endobronchial tuberculosis.