Clinical-paraclinical characteristics of pulmonary tuberculosis associated with human immunodeficiency virus

Abstract

Clinical-paraclinical characteristics of pulmonary tuberculosis associated with human immunodeficiency virus. Materials and methods: The analysis of selected scientific publications from the HINARI, MEDLINE, EMBASE, etc. Results and conclusions: in recent years, in the world, tuberculosis associated with the human immunodeficiency virus is one of the most serious public health problems, contributing to the increase in cases of morbidity, incapacity for work and mortality. Usually, the disease develops in young people, with the asocial lifestyle, with compromised immunity, etc. The most common manifestation of tuberculosis in HIV-infected adults is pulmonary. Initially, the tuberculous process affects the upper lungs, where cavities, fibrosis, shrinkage and calcification of the lung can occur. When the immunodeficiency increases, the cough becomes rarer, the intrathoracic lymph nodes become lysed more frequently, and the process already affects the lower lung lobes. To prevent tuberculosis in this contingent of patients it is necessary to dispense them with the necessary examination twice a year, indicating timely antiretroviral therapy and chemoprophylaxis