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Disinfection/methods , Endoscopes , Sterilization/methods , Colony Count, Microbial , Cross Infection/prevention & control , Cross Infection/transmission , Disinfectants , Equipment Reuse , Humans , Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous/prevention & control , Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous/transmission , Mycobacterium chelonae/drug effects , Tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal/prevention & control , Tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal/transmissionABSTRACT
The authors reviewed the histories of 133 patients with abdominal tuberculosis in Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño (Children's Hospital), Lima, Perú, between 1989 and 1991. We found morbidity higher in scholars (67.4%). Weight lost were present in all cases and malaise in 95.3%, abdominal distension in 83.72% and abdominal pain in 79.06%. Anaemia in 76.06%, ratio albumin/globulin were altered in 74.41% leukocytosis in 67.44%. Evidence of tuberculosis on chest X-ray were detected only in 62.5%.
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Peritonitis, Tuberculous/epidemiology , Tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal/epidemiology , Tuberculosis, Miliary/epidemiology , Age Distribution , BCG Vaccine/immunology , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Peritonitis, Tuberculous/complications , Peritonitis, Tuberculous/prevention & control , Peru/epidemiology , Retrospective Studies , Risk Factors , Sex Distribution , Tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal/complications , Tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal/prevention & control , Tuberculosis, Miliary/complications , Tuberculosis, Miliary/prevention & controlABSTRACT
The diagnostic problems which may be raised during caustic oesophago-gastric burns and concommittent tuberculosis, of which the symptoms may be masked by the richness of the initial clinical picture are discussed here. The authors emphasise the necessity of prophylactic anti-tuberculous treatment, before any surgery when there is any suggestion of tuberculosis even siabilised.
