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Open decortication for patients presenting with stage III tuberculous empyema with low density lines on CT imaging

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
To explore the influence of CT findings on the optimal timing of open decorticationin patients with stage III tuberculous empyema. A total of 80 patients with stage III tuberculous empyema who had undergone open decortications were recruited; 44 patients
Xiaoyu Liu   +5 more
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Transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis within family households by DTM-PCR and MIRU-VNTR genotyping

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a public health threat. There are few studies on transmission and genotyping of MDR-TB family households in China.
Jun Chen   +7 more
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TBDLNet: a network for classifying multidrug-resistant and drug-sensitive tuberculosis [PDF]

open access: yesEngineering Reports (2023), 2023
This paper proposes applying a novel deep-learning model, TBDLNet, to recognize CT images to classify multidrug-resistant and drug-sensitive tuberculosis automatically. The pre-trained ResNet50 is selected to extract features. Three randomized neural networks are used to alleviate the overfitting problem.
arxiv   +1 more source

Effectiveness and safety of bedaquiline-containing regimens for treatment on patients with refractory RR/MDR/XDR-tuberculosis: a retrospective cohort study in East China

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Objective Refractory rifampicin-resistant/multidrug resistant/extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis (RR/MDR/XDR-TB) were defined as patients infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) resistant to rifampicin(RR-TB), or at least resistant to ...
Shao-Jun Zhang   +7 more
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Application of Bronchoscopic TransParenchymal Nodule Access in tuberculous bronchial occlusion

open access: yesThe Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2022
Bronchoscopic TransParenchymal Nodule Access (BTPNA) technology is mainly used for sampling or ablative treatment of lung parenchymal lesions that cannot be reached by bronchoscopy and its appendages, generally for palliative treatment of some lung ...
Qiusheng Jing   +6 more
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Diagnostic Value of Virtual Bronchoscopic Navigation in the Bronchial Tuberculosis Induced Central Airway Stenosis

open access: yesInfectious Diseases and Therapy, 2020
Introduction Electronic bronchoscopy is invasive and may cause pain. This study aimed to explore the clinical value of virtual bronchoscopic navigation (VBN) in the diagnosis of benign central airway stenosis (CAS) secondary to tracheobronchial ...
Li-Ping Cheng   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness and safety of regimens containing linezolid for treatment of Mycobacterium abscessus pulmonary Disease

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, 2023
Objective To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of linezolid-containing regimens for treatment of M. abscessus pulmonary disease. Methods The records of 336 patients with M.
Li-ping Cheng   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rapid Identification of Nontuberculous Mycobacterium Species from Respiratory Specimens Using Nucleotide MALDI-TOF MS

open access: yesMicroorganisms, 2023
We performed a prospective study to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of nucleotide matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) in identifying nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) from clinical respiratory ...
Lan Yao   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

A highly effective and inexpensive standardized treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a multicenter prospective study in China

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background To verify the efficacy and safety of an inexpensive standardized regimen for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) with low resistance to isoniazid (INH), a multicenter prospective study was conducted in eastern China.
Wenwen Sun   +10 more
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Sleep quality and influencing factors and correlation with T-lymphocyte subpopulation counts in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background Patients diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) have poor sleep quality due to multiple factors. We aimed to assess the sleep status and related factors of TB patients in Shenzhen, China. Methods A questionnaire survey was conducted on 461 
Hailin Zhang   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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