Plain chest x-ray findings in patent With pulmonary tuberculosis

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to evaluate the chest x-ray finding in the suspected Pulmonary TB (tuberculosis) in Sudanese patients at different hospitals & diagnostical centers in Khartoum State. This study includes 100 patients (35% female, 65%male) in different age and socioeconomic states, for seven months from December 2009 to June 2010. The mean ages was (32 Years) The result of this study showed that (72%)of the patients have a positive result for pulmonary T.B and (28) % have a negative result for pulmonary T.B, the most abundance symptoms of pulmonary TB in the study was coughing (85%), the most abundance finding was interstitial opacity (73%), and the most abundance site of finding was Rt upper zone (52%), that’s a positive result were showed in the patients have more than three symptoms from all 6 symptoms and have more than two finding from all 5 finding when the chest x-ray are evaluated for T.B, There was a direct relationship between the summation of numbers of symptoms and the summation of numbers of chest x-ray finding and the correlation could be fitted in the following equation: y═0.4666x+2.4488 where x refers to summation of symptoms and y refers to summation of finding, the result shown that when the numbers of patients symptoms are increased the probability of positive finding were also increased, and thus the probability of positive results will also increased, the positive results in males (63.9%) more than females (36.1%) and the negative results of male (78.6%) more than females (21%) The most abundance ages groups have a positive and negative results was less than 35 year old