Prasad R, Verma S K, Shrivastava P, Kant S, Kushwaha R A S, Kumar S
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, CSMMU, UP, Lucknow, India.
Lung India. 2008 Oct;25(4):142-4. doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.45277.
To know the follow up status of tuberculosis patients after 1 year of completion of treatment in RNTCP. MATERIALS #ENTITYSTARTX00026;
Those patients of tuberculosis, who were registered from June 2003 to June 2004 at DOTS centre of our institution, were followed up at their homes after one year of completion of treatment between August 2005 and August 2006, with the help of health visitor. Patients were followed up clinically and symptomatic patients were also followed radiologically as well as bacteriologicalty. Results of the study were recorded in terms of number of patients remained asymptomatic, number of patients relapsed and number of patients died.
Out of 237 patients registered, 8 patients died during treatment period, 12 patients defaulted the treatment, the number of failures was 5 and 212 patients were declared cured/treatment completed. Out of these 212 patients 60 were unavailable for interview due to various reasons. The study observed that out of a total of 152 patients interviewed, 137 patients (90.1%) of remained asymptomatic, 11 patients (7.2%) had relapsed and 4 patients (2.6%) died during follow up.
The study observed that majority of patients (90.1%) re-mained asymptomatic after the completion of one year of treatment under DOTS.
了解印度国家结核病控制规划（RNTCP）中结核病患者完成治疗1年后的随访情况。材料与方法：2003年6月至2004年6月在我院直接观察短程治疗（DOTS）中心登记的结核病患者，于2005年8月至2006年8月在卫生访视员的协助下，完成治疗1年后进行家访随访。对患者进行临床随访，有症状的患者还进行了影像学和细菌学随访。研究结果根据无症状患者数量、复发患者数量和死亡患者数量进行记录。结果：在登记的237例患者中，8例在治疗期间死亡，12例中断治疗，治疗失败5例，212例患者被宣布治愈/完成治疗。在这212例患者中，60例因各种原因无法接受访谈。研究发现，在总共152例接受访谈的患者中，137例（90.1%）在随访期间无症状，11例（7.2%）复发，4例（2.6%）死亡。结论：研究发现，在DOTS治疗方案下完成1年治疗后，大多数患者（90.1%）无症状。
