CLINICAL PROFILE OF PEDIATRIC TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS WITH REFERENCE TO DIFFERENT DIAGNOSTIC SCORING SYSTEMS.

Dr. Kinjal Patel, Dr. Anil Katara

Abstract


Tuberculosis is one of the most common cause of morbidity and mortality among worldwide mainly in developing countries. The World Health
Organization reported that about 1 million children develop TB each year out of total 10 million TB cases.
Aims: to study clinical profile of patients of tuberculosis and applicability of different scoring systems.
Material and methodology: cross sectional study performed over a period of 2 years. 40 hospitalized pediatric patients of tuberculosis were
evaluated in accordance with 4 different diagnostic scoring systems.
Results: more incidence of TB in less than 5 year of age. Most common presenting complain was fever followed by cough and weight loss. Around
¾ children were severely malnourished. Moderate anemia and high value of ESR was observed in almost all cases. Amongst 4 scoring systems
MKJS showed good reliability and sensitivity (95%).


Keywords


pediatric tuberculosis, scoring systems.

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