Clinical features of Tibetan adolescent tuberculosis at high altitudes: a retrospective study.

Publication date: Dec 18, 2024

Adolescent pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is considered inadequately recognized and underreported at high altitudes. This study aimed to investigate the clinical features of adolescent pulmonary TB patients at high altitudes in China. A retrospective analysis was performed at Linzhi People’s Hospital. Patients recruited were newly diagnosed with pulmonary TB. Detailed information, including demographics, medical history, presenting symptoms, laboratory results and pulmonary images, was collected. Sputum samples were collected to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis via the GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay. A total of 63 adolescents and 192 adults were recruited. Compared with those in the adult group, typical TB-related manifestations were significantly less common in the adolescent group (all P 

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Concepts Keywords
China Adolescent
Mycobacterium Adult
Newly Altitude
Tibetan Blood Sedimentation
Tuberculosis Female
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Retrospective Studies
Sputum
Subclinical tuberculosis
Tibet
Tuberculosis exposure rate
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
Young Adult

Semantics

Type Source Name
disease MESH tuberculosis
pathway KEGG Tuberculosis
disease MESH pulmonary tuberculosis
disease IDO history
disease IDO assay
pathway REACTOME Reproduction
drug DRUGBANK Guanosine
drug DRUGBANK Coenzyme M
drug DRUGBANK Ethionamide
drug DRUGBANK Oxygen
disease MESH hypoxia
disease MESH altitude hypoxia
disease MESH infectious diseases
drug DRUGBANK Etoperidone
drug DRUGBANK Honey
disease MESH cancer
disease MESH abnormalities
disease MESH weight loss
disease MESH chest pain
drug DRUGBANK Rifampicin
disease IDO nucleic acid
drug DRUGBANK Sodium lauryl sulfate
disease MESH back pain
disease IDO blood
drug DRUGBANK Adenosine
disease MESH Lumbago
disease IDO cell
disease MESH infection
disease IDO process
disease MESH latent infection
disease MESH tics
drug DRUGBANK Aminosalicylic Acid
disease IDO symptom
disease MESH pleural effusion
drug DRUGBANK Dihydrostreptomycin
drug DRUGBANK Isoxaflutole
pathway REACTOME Infectious disease
disease IDO infectious disease
disease IDO country

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