Evaluation of the diagnostic utility of fiberoptic bronchoscopy for smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in routine clinical practice

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dc.date.available2022-01-18T19:34:43Z
dc.date.created2022-01-18T19:34:43Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/11188
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1590/s1806-37132012000600011
dc.description.abstractWe evaluated the diagnostic yield of fiberoptic bronchoscopy for the diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in patients treated at a referral hospital in Lima, Peru. Of the 611 patients who underwent the procedure, 140 (23%) were diagnosed with tuberculosis based on the analysis of BAL samples. Being young and being male were significantly associated with positive cultures. In addition, 287 patients underwent post-bronchoscopic sputum smear testing for AFB, the results of which increased the diagnostic yield by 22% over that obtained through the analysis of BAL samples alone. We concluDe that the analysis of BAL samples and post-bronchoscopic sputum samples provides a high diagnostic yield in smear-negative patients suspected of having pulmonary tuberculosis.
dc.languageeng
dc.languageprt
dc.publisherSociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia
dc.relationJornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
dc.relation1806-3756
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subjectSputum
dc.subjectTuberculosis
dc.subjectBronchoscopy
dc.subjectPulmonary diagnosis
dc.subjectTuberculose pulmonar
dc.subjectBroncoscopia
dc.subjectEscarro
dc.titleEvaluation of the diagnostic utility of fiberoptic bronchoscopy for smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in routine clinical practice
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article


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