ArticleRisk management and healthcare policy2020
The Diagnostic Performance of Chest-X-Ray and Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate in Comparison with GeneXpert
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introductionFor many years, chest-X-ray (CXR) has been used as a diagnostic tool to complement clinical diagnosis of bacteriologically negative tuberculosis (TB) cases. Increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) was also used as laboratory surrogates to augment the diagnosis of bacteriological test negative TB cases. The objective of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of CXR and ESR in comparison with geneXpert
methodsAn institution-based cross-sectional study was carried out from February 1, 2018-January 31, 2019. During regular HIV-clinic visits, PLHIVs were assessed for TB using the National and WHO screening tool, and those with positive results were further evaluated using ESR, CXR and sputum for AFB and GeneXpert
resultsA total of 384 patients with presumptive TB-HIV co-infection were included of which 165 (43.0%) were diagnosed to have TB, and 79 (53.3%) of these were confirmed by GeneXpert
conclusionCXR in diagnostic work of TB among PLHIV plays an unprecedented role while ESR has little clinical significance in the evaluation of TB.
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