Fazli Maula, Amir Suleman, Muhammad Yasin, Munawar Zaman.
Frequency of bronchial asthma in post-tuberculosis patients.
Pak J Chest Med Jan ;20(3):86-8.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of bronchial asthma in patients with successful treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). METHODOLOGY: This was a cross sectional descriptive study conducted in three teaching hospitals (i.e. Khalifa Gul Nawaz, District Headquarter and Women and Children Teaching hospital) Bannu from 1st April 2011 to 15th October 2013. All medical doctors were requested to send all the patients for assessment to pulmonology outpatient department (OPD) presenting with cough, recurent wheezing and dyspnea, after completion of TB treatment for PTB. After complete history, thorough examination they were either excluded or included in the study according to diagnostic criteria which was spirometry. Data was analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 17. RESULTS: Three hundred and seventy three patients were interviewed, examined and PFTSs were done. Out of them 80 were excluded and 293 were enrolled in the study. Males were 138(47%), females 155(53%) and asthma was found in 70(24%) of patients with 70(54%) females. Maximum numbers of patients were between 15 and 45 years of age. CONCLUSION: Bronchial asthma is a common problem in patients with history of successfully treated PTB in the past. Larger scale control studies should be conducted to verify the association and establishing the mechanism.

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