Al Jahdali Hamdan H, Baharoon Salim, Abba Abdullah A, Memish Ziad A, Alrajhi Abdulrahman A, AlBarrak Ali, Haddad Qais A, Al Hajjaj Mohammad, Pai Madhukar, Menzies Dick
Department of Medicine, King Saud University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Ann Saudi Med. 2010 Jan-Feb;30(1):38-49. doi: 10.4103/0256-4947.59373.
Pulmonary tuberculosis is a common disease in Saudi Arabia. As most cases of tuberculosis are due to reactivation of latent infection, identification of individuals with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) who are at increased risk of progression to active disease, is a key element of tuberculosis control programs. Whereas general screening of individuals for LTBI is not cost-effective, targeted testing of individuals at high risk of disease progression is the right approach. Treatment of those patients with LTBI can diminish the risk of progression to active tuberculosis disease in the majority of treated patients. This statement is the first Saudi guideline for testing and treatment of LTBI and is a result of the cooperative efforts of four local Saudi scientific societies. This Guideline is intended to provide physicians and allied health workers in Saudi Arabia with the standard of care for testing and treatment of LTBI.
肺结核在沙特阿拉伯是一种常见疾病。由于大多数结核病病例是由潜伏感染的重新激活引起的,识别那些有进展为活动性疾病风险增加的潜伏性结核感染(LTBI)个体,是结核病控制项目的关键要素。虽然对个体进行LTBI的普遍筛查不具有成本效益,但对疾病进展高风险个体进行有针对性的检测是正确的方法。对这些LTBI患者进行治疗可以降低大多数接受治疗患者进展为活动性结核病的风险。本声明是沙特阿拉伯关于LTBI检测和治疗的首个指南,是沙特四个当地科学协会合作努力的成果。本指南旨在为沙特阿拉伯的医生和相关医护人员提供LTBI检测和治疗的护理标准。