The survey of clinical response to the treatment among pulmonary tuberculoses (TB) patients in the infectious ward of Razi hospital, Ahvaz, sw, Iran

Nasrin Saadati; Mitra Bigpourian Behbahani; Abdorrasoul Nik Khoye

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The survey of clinical response to the treatment among pulmonary tuberculoses (TB) patients in the infectious ward of Razi hospital, Ahvaz, sw, Iran

Author(s):

Nasrin Saadati¹,

Mitra Bigpourian Behbahani²,

Abdorrasoul Nik Khoye³

1Department of social medicine, school of medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapour University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran

2Ahvaz, IR Iran

3Department of social medicine, school of medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapour University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran

Jundishapur Journal of Health Sciences:Vol. 2, issue 1; 10-16

Published online:Mar 20, 2010

Article type:Research Article

How to Cite:Saadati N, Bigpourian Behbahani M, Nik Khoye A, The survey of clinical response to the treatment among pulmonary tuberculoses (TB) patients in the infectious ward of Razi hospital, Ahvaz, sw, Iran.Jundishapur J Health Sci.2010;2(1):10-16.

Abstract

The main health problem of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is tuberculosis which is a communicable phenomenon. With increasing the population of elderly society and the prevalance of AIDS around the world, unusual manifestations of tuberculosis are seen in the both developed and developing countries. Therefore monitoring and clinical assessing of response to the treatment to get the decision to continue, change or cut the treatment is very a vital point. Relative frequency of response to the treatment also is a very important issue from points of decreasing the patient complains and clinical signs over a period of time. Therefore the ability to draw the clinical response patterns to the variety treatments, including correct treatments of tuberculosis, in the different stages of the treatment process is a very important issue to eliminate the disease.

Keywords

immunodeficiency syndrome

clinical response

pulmonary tuberculosis (TB)

Ahvaz

Iran

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