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Last updated: 24 Oct 2024

Резюме

Определение

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • presencia de factores de riesgo
  • tos
  • fiebre
  • anorexia
  • pérdida de peso
  • malestar general

Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • sudores nocturnos
  • dolor torácico pleurítico
  • hemoptisis
  • síntomas psicológicos
  • auscultación pulmonar anómala
  • asintomático
  • disnea
  • acropaquias
  • eritema nodoso y eritema indurato

Fatores de risco

  • exposición a infección
  • nacimiento en un país endémico
  • Infección por VIH
  • medicamentos inmunosupresores
  • neoplasia maligna
  • silicosis
  • nefropatía terminal
  • fibrosis apical
  • consumo de drogas ilícitas por vía intravenosa
  • desnutrición
  • alcoholismo
  • diabetes
  • instituciones de alto riesgo
  • nivel socioeconómico bajo o ascendencia de raza negra, hispanos o nativo-americanos
  • edad
  • tabaquismo

Investigações diagnósticas

Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas

  • radiografía de tórax
  • frotis de bacilos ácido-alcohol resistentes del esputo
  • cultivo de esputo
  • HC (hemograma completo)
  • pruebas de amplificación de ácidos nucleicos (PAAN)

Investigações a serem consideradas

  • aspirado gástrico
  • broncoscopia y lavado broncoalveolar
  • pruebas en heces
  • tratamiento empírico
  • prueba de susceptibilidad a fármacos
  • genotipado
  • prueba del VIH
  • ensayo de lipoarabinomanano en orina de flujo lateral (LF-LAM)
  • tomografía computarizada (TC) de tórax
  • pruebas cutáneas de la tuberculina
  • determinación de la liberación de interferón gamma
  • Pruebas cutáneas basadas en el antígeno de la tuberculosis (TBST)

Algoritmo de tratamento

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

Disclosures

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

Disclosures

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

Peer reviewers

Fayez Kheir, MD, MSc

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston

MA

Disclosures

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

Disclosures

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

Artigos de referência

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