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PLEURAL DISEASE: Hee Joung Kim, Hyun Ju Lee, Sung-Youn Kwon, Ho Il Yoon, Hee Soon Chung, Choon-Taek Lee, Sung Koo Han, Young-Soo Shim, and Jae-Joon Yim The Prevalence of Pulmonary Parenchymal Tuberculosis in Patients With Tuberculous Pleuritis Chest 2006; 129: 1253-1258 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

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Pleural tuberculosis disease pattern may differ among developed and developing countries

Wanis H Ibrahim   (11 May 2006)

Pleural tuberculosis disease pattern may differ among developed and developing countries 11 May 2006
Wanis H Ibrahim, Specialist Pulmonary medicine Hamad general hospital, Doha, Qatar Send letter to journal: Re: Pleural tuberculosis disease pattern may differ among developed and developing countries wanisian{at}yahoo.com Wanis H Ibrahim	I read with interest the article on the prevalence of pulmonary parenchymal tuberculosis in patients with tuberculous pleritis by Kim HJ, and his colleagues.infact this study confirms our findings in a retrospective study of 100 patients with pleural tuberculosis which was published in Respiratory medicine in 2005 (Ref. 1)which concluded that pleural tuberculosis disease pattern may differ among developed and developing countries. Our study was conducted in Qatar and interesingly we found different results from what was published previously in developed countries and in the current study, our study showed that younger age groups are more commonly affected than older age groups( 84% of patients were below the age of 45 years) and more interestingly the pleural disease in our study tended to be a primary one and the parenchymal lung involvement on chest radigraph was absent in 78% of cases as compared to the current study which showed parenchymal involvement on chest radiograph in 67% of cases.We concluded that pleural tuberculosis disease pattern may differ among developed and developing countries. Dr Wanis H Ibrahim, MB, MRCP(UK). References: 1. Ibrahim WH, Ghadban W, Khinji A, Yasin R, Soub H, AL-Khal A, Bener A. Does pleural tuberculosis disease pattern differ among developed and developing countries. Respiratory medicine(2005)99,1038-1045.