Óbitos por tuberculose em hospital terciário em Goiânia, Brasil: estudo descritivo

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Tavares, Camila
• Orientador(a): Araújo Filho, João Alves de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Medicina Tropical e Saúde Publica (IPTSP)
• Departamento: Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública - IPTSP (RG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Tuberculose pulmonar; HIV; Mortalidade
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Mortality
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: IMUNOLOGIA::IMUNOLOGIA APLICADA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3209

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a serious global public health problem, being the main cause of deaths in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and the third cause of death by infectious diseases throughout the world. This situation is surprising because it is a disease that if treated properly displays high rates of healing. It is therefore important to characterize these patients to identify target populations for specific measures seeking to reduce TB deaths. We performed a retrospective descriptive study to analyze the cases of TB deaths in a State public hospital, reference for treatment of infectious diseases, located in the Central-West region of Brazil, in the period of January 1st, 2008 to December 31th, 2009. There were 283 diagnosed and reported cases of TB between 2008 and 2009, and 39 recorded deaths occurred, resulting in a lethality index of 14%. Mean age of 42 years and a median age of 37 years. Pulmonary TB was the most common form of TB (51.3% of the patients). Of the 39 TB patients who died, 56.4% (n = 22) were co-infected with HIV. The main immediate causes of death were acute respiratory failure (n = 12) and sepsis (n =8). Anemia and hypoalbuminemia were prevalent in this group, and 27 patients required mechanical ventilation. This study found that hospitalized patients who died had the following characteristics: bilateral pulmonary disease, low levels of hemoglobin and hematocrit, albumin, and those co-infected with HIV that has been admitted to the ICU required MV. Prospective studies aiming to analyze the risk factors for death from TB are needed to better understand this process.