Zheng Xian-min, Li Song-mei
Department of Phthisiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical College, Weihui 453100, China.
Di Yi Jun Yi Da Xue Xue Bao. 2004 Nov;24(11):1308-10.
To investigate the shore-term therapeutic effects of AIDS complicated by tuberculosis.
Ninety-eight AIDS patients with tuberculosis living in a village in Henan province were observed.
Among the 98 patients, fever, cough, night sweating, weight loss, and superficial lymph node swelling were the common symptoms. Highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) combined with a 6-month anti-tuberculosis treatment protocol with streptomycin, isoniazid, rifampin, and pyrazinamide (2SHRZ/4HRZ) resulted in improvement of the patients' clinical symptoms and signs as well as the immune functions.
AIDS complicated by tuberculosis should receive due medical attention and sputum smear examination for anti-acid bacillus combined with X-ray examination possesses good diagnostic value for tuberculosis in these patients, for whom short-term anti-tuberculosis treatment may have beneficial effects.
