[Active pulmonary tuberculosis in the community. Current presentation].
OBJECTIVE
To discover how patients in a provincial general hospital, diagnosed as having pulmonary tuberculosis had first clinically and radiologically presented.


METHODS
This was a retrospective observational study. SITE. The San Jorge de Huesca General Hospital. The period of study was between January, 1986, and December, 1989.


METHODS
Those studied were the 59 patients diagnosed as having active pulmonary tuberculosis during the study period.


RESULTS
The average age of the patients was 45.6 +/- 19.25 SD. There was greater occurrence in males. The most common form in which the disease first appeared was thoracic symptomatology (59%), followed by constitutional syndrome (45.7%). 8 patients were addicted to drugs taken parenterally (ADVP), of whom 4 were HIV-positive (6.8%). The most common radiological pattern was ulcero-caseous.


CONCLUSIONS
We underline the importance of diagnostical awareness at the Primary Care level in order to rapidly begin the correct treatment; and thus fight the adverse epidemiological situation caused by tuberculosis today.
Gállego
R M
RM
Centro de Salud Perpetuo Socorro, Unidad Docente de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria de Huesca.
Puyol
E
E
Lorente
T
T
Domínguez
J L
JL
Formento
A
A
Marín
J M
JM
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012737:Sex Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology
Tuberculosis pulmonar activa en la comunidad. Presentación actual.