Chronic cor pulmonary resulting from tuberculosis

ABSTRACT

From 1977 to 1985, 78 patients with Chronic Cor Pulmonale resulting from antecedent tuberculosis have been treated in the cardiology department of Ibn Rochd Hospital, Casablanca, Morroco. The responsability of tuberculosis is predominant in the setting of the disease [30%]. Eight years was the mean time elapsed between the tuberculosis and the Cor Pulmonale. All patients were seen with right heart failure. The most frequent complications were acute respiratory failure [80%], supra-ventricular arrythmias [18%] and digestive tract bleeding [6.5%]. 42% died, most of them from acute respiratory failure. Survival rate was 52% nearly eight years after the onset of the cor pulmonale