Focused ultrasound to diagnose HIV-associated tuberculosis (FASH) in the extremely resource-limited setting of South Sudan: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Our cross-sectional study aimed at evaluating the diagnostic performance of Focused Assessment with Sonography for HIV-associated tuberculosis (FASH) to detect extrapulmonary tuberculosis in extremely resource-limited settings, with visceral leishmaniasis as a differential diagnosis with overlapping sonographic feature.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Voluntary Counselling and Testing Centre (VCT) of Yirol Hospital, South Sudan.

Participants

From May to November 2017, 252 HIV-positive patients out of 624 newly admitted to VCT Centre were registered for antiretroviral treatment. According to the number of trained doctors available to practise ultrasound (US) scan, a sample of 100 patients were screened using the FASH protocol.

Interventions

SUBMITTER: Bobbio F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6500283 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature