Efficacy of steroid pulse therapy for miliary tuberculosis complicated by acute respiratory distress syndrome

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is considered a poor prognostic factor for miliary tuberculosis (MTB), but little is known about the effectiveness of steroid pulse therapy for MTB complicated by ARDS.

Patients and methods

Medical records were used to retrospectively investigate the prognosis and clinical information of 13 patients diagnosed with MTB complicated by ARDS among 68 patients diagnosed with MTB at our hospital between January 1994 and October 2016. None of the patients had multidrug resistant tuberculosis (TB). MTB was diagnosed by 1 radiologist and 2 respiratory physicians based on the observation of randomly distributed, uniformly sized diffuse bilateral nodules on chest computed tomography and the detection of mycobacterium TB from cl

SUBMITTER: Wakamatsu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9708912 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature