title: [Tuberculosis in chronic renal failure patients with or without renal replacement therapy].
abstract: Tuberculosis developed in 40 out of 978 chronic renal failure (CRF) patients with or without renal replacement therapy during a five-year period. The incidence was 4.1% and was 10 times higher than that in the general population. The onset of symptoms was within 1 year after dialysis or kidney transplantation in 68% of the patients. 82.5% of them had predominantly extrapulmonary tuberculosis and most of these were lymph node infection. The diagnosis of tuberculosis in these patients was difficult; tuberculin sensitivity was present only in 6.4% of the patients and examination of sputum and other fluid for mycobacteria was usually unrewarding. Detecting serum anti-PPD-IgG level might be a valuable supplementary diagnostic method, because 85% of patients with active tuberculosis showed positive results. Measuring serous exudate and urine anti-PPD-IgG level by ELISA or M. Tuberculosis DNA by PCR might be helpful in the diagnosis of tuberculous serositis and urinary tract mycobacterial infection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology, Nanfang Hospital, Guangzhou.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wei
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D014388:Tuberculosis, Lymph Node / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology