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Pulmonary tuberculosis

Last reviewed: 10 Dec 2025
Last updated: 24 Oct 2024

Summary

Definição

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • presence of risk factors
  • cough
  • fever
  • anorexia
  • weight loss
  • malaise
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Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • night sweats
  • pleuritic chest pain
  • haemoptysis
  • psychological symptoms
  • abnormal chest auscultation
  • asymptomatic
  • dyspnoea
  • clubbing
  • erythema nodosum and erythema induratum
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Fatores de risco

  • exposure to infection
  • birth in an endemic country
  • HIV infection
  • immunosuppressive medicines
  • malignancy
  • silicosis
  • end-stage renal disease
  • apical fibrosis
  • intravenous drug use
  • malnutrition
  • alcoholism
  • diabetes
  • high-risk congregate settings
  • low socio-economic status or black/Hispanic/Native American ancestry
  • age
  • tobacco smoking
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Investigações diagnósticas

Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas

  • chest x-ray
  • sputum acid-fast bacilli smear
  • sputum culture
  • FBC (full blood count)
  • nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT)
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Investigações a serem consideradas

  • gastric aspirate
  • bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage
  • stool testing
  • empirical treatment
  • drug susceptibility testing
  • genotyping
  • HIV test
  • lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan (LF-LAM) assay
  • CT of chest
  • tuberculin skin testing
  • interferon-gamma release assays
  • TB antigen-based skin tests (TBSTs)
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Algoritmo de tratamento

Inicial

latent TB infection: non-pregnant

latent TB infection: pregnant

AGUDA

active TB HIV-negative non-pregnant: no hepatic dysfunction

active TB HIV-positive non-pregnant: no hepatic dysfunction

active TB pregnant

active TB non-pregnant: pre-existing or drug-induced hepatic dysfunction

CONTÍNUA

recurrent TB

Colaboradores

Autores

David J. Horne, MD, MPH
David J. Horne

Associate Professor

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

Department of Medicine

University of Washington

Seattle

WA

Declarações

DJH declares that he has no competing interests.

Masahiro Narita, MD
Masahiro Narita

Professor of Medicine

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

Department of Medicine

University of Washington

Seattle

WA

Declarações

MN declares that he has no competing interests. MN is the author of a reference cited in this topic.

Revisores

Fayez Kheir, MD, MSc

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston

MA

Declarações

FK declares that he has no competing interests.

William Burman, MD

Professor

Division of Infectious Diseases

University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center

Denver

CO

Declarações

WB declares that he has no competing interests.

Ian Campbell, MD (Lond), FRCP (Edin & Lond)

Consultant Chest Physician

Llandough Hospital

Llandough

Penarth

South Wales

Declarações

IC declares that he has no competing interests.

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Principais artigos

Nahid P, Dorman SE, Alipanah N, et al. Official American Thoracic Society/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Infectious Diseases Society of America clinical practice guidelines: treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis. Clin Infect Dis. 2016 Oct 1;63(7):e147-95.Texto completo  Resumo

Lewinsohn DM, Leonard MK, LoBue PA, et al. Official American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clinical practice guidelines: diagnosis of tuberculosis in adults and children. Clin Infect Dis. 2017 Jan 15;64(2):e1-33.Texto completo  Resumo

World Health Organization. WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 5: management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents. Mar 2022 [internet publication].Texto completo

National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV Medicine Association, and Infectious Diseases Society of America. Panel on Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in Adults and Adolescents with HIV. Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections in adults and adolescents with HIV: mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and disease. 2024 [internet publication].Texto completo

Nahid P, Mase SR, Migliori GB, et al. Treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. An official ATS/CDC/ERS/IDSA clinical practice guideline. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019 Nov 15;200(10):e93-142.Texto completo  Resumo

World Health Organization. WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 4: treatment: drug-susceptible tuberculosis treatment. May 2022 [internet publication].Texto completo

Uthman OA, Okwundu C, Gbenga K, et al. Optimal timing of antiretroviral therapy initiation for HIV-infected adults with newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med. 2015 Jul 7;163(1):32-9. Resumo

World Health Organization. WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 4: treatment: drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment, 2022 update. Dec 2022 [internet publication].Texto completo

Tuberculosis Trials Consortium. Rifapentine and isoniazid once a week versus rifampicin and isoniazid twice a week for treatment of drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-negative patients: a randomised clinical trial. Lancet. 2002 Aug 17;360(9332):528-34. Resumo

American Thoracic Society/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Infectious Diseases Society of America. Controlling tuberculosis in the United States. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2005 Nov 1;172(9):1169-227.Texto completo  Resumo

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