Microbiological confirmation of tuberculous pleurisy with medical thoracoscopy: targeted pleural washing and pleural biopsy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to the pauci-bacillary nature of tuberculous (TB) pleurisy, clinical diagnosis is common, but microbiological confirmation is necessary to determine drug resistance. This study aimed to investigate the diagnostic yield of medical thoracoscopy (MT) for microbiological confirmation of TB pleurisy.

Methods

Medical records of patients diagnosed as TB pleurisy with microbiological or histologic evidence who underwent MT between May 2015 and July 2023 at Incheon St. Mary's Hospital were retrospectively reviewed. Sensitivities of microbiological results [acid-fast bacilli (AFB) culture or TB-polymerase chain reaction (PCR)] of pre-MT pleural fluid and those of targeted pleural washing fluid and pleural tissues obtained during MT were compared. Difference in sensitivi

SUBMITTER: Hong YJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11388207 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature