ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2018
Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in India: A Prospective Cohort Study in HIV-Positive and HIV-Negative Presumptive Tuberculosis Patients.
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05364593 (Evaluating Point-of-care Ultrasound to Improve Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Children), which is not on this map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Evaluating Point-of-care Ultrasound to Improve Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Children
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
- Abdominal ultrasound for diagnosing abdominal tuberculosis or disseminated tuberculosis with abdominal involvement in HIV-positive individuals.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Predictive Ability of Sonographic Characteristics Alone to Diagnose Tuberculous Pleural Effusions in a Resource-Limited Setting: A Cross-Sectional Pilot Study in Zambia.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2026Article
- Diagnostic Accuracy of Sonographic Signs of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis and Treatment Response Monitoring in HIV-Positive and -Negative Populations.The ultrasound journal · 2026Article
- Clinically diagnosed tuberculosis and mortality in high burden settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Sensitive diagnosis of paucibacillary tuberculosis with targeted next-generation sequencing: a molecular diagnostic study.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Lung and abdominal ultrasound accuracy for tuberculosis: An Indian prospective cohort study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Diagnostic Accuracy of Lung and Abdominal Ultrasound for Tuberculosis in a German Multicenter Cohort of Patients With Presumed Tuberculosis Disease.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Comments and Illustrations of Ultrasound Findings in Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Manifestations.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Point-of-care ultrasound for tuberculosis diagnosis in children: a Médecins Sans Frontières cross-sectional study in Guinea-Bissau.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Sonographic Features of a Tuberculous Cold Abscess: A Case Report and Literature Review.POCUS journal · 2023Article
- Extrapulmonary tuberculosis mortality according to clinical and point of care ultrasound features in Mozambique.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Towards Accurate Point-of-Care Tests for Tuberculosis in Children.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Task shifting for point of care ultrasound in primary healthcare in low- and middle-income countries-a systematic review.EClinicalMedicine · 2022Review
- Chest Imaging in the Diagnosis and Management of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: The Complementary Role of Thoraci Ultrasound.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Lung Ultrasound Findings Compared with Chest X-Ray Findings in Known Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study in Lima, Peru.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Article
- Diagnostic Utility and Impact on Clinical Decision Making of Focused Assessment With Sonography for HIV-Associated Tuberculosis in Malawi: A Prospective Cohort Study.Global health, science and practice · 2020Article
- Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients in rural Tanzania: The prospective Kilombero and Ulanga antiretroviral cohort.PloS one · 2020Article
- Point-of-care Ultrasound for Pulmonary and Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in Children.The Pediatric infectious disease journal · 2019Article
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- Sonography to Rule Out Tuberculosis in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Prospective Observational Study.Open forum infectious diseases · 2019Article
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Abstract
Diagnosing extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is challenging. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated EPTB is applied in sub-Saharan Africa. This study aimed at evaluating the applicability of POCUS for diagnosing EPTB in HIV-positive and HIV-negative presumptive tuberculosis (TB) patients in India, a country of moderate relative TB and HIV burden. Presumptive TB patients at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, India, prospectively underwent POCUS evaluating for pericardial, pleural and ascitic effusion, abdominal lymphadenopathy, and hepatic and splenic microabscesses. Findings were correlated with TB category (confirmed TB, clinical TB, unlikely TB), HIV status, and discharge diagnoses. A total of 425 patients underwent POCUS; 81 (20%) were HIV-positive. POCUS findings were more common in HIV/TB coinfected patients than in HIV-positive patients with unlikely TB (24/40 (60%) versus 9/41 (22%),
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