Assessment of lung function in successfully treated tuberculosis reveals high burden of ventilatory defects and COPD.

Assessment of lung function in successfully treated tuberculosis reveals high burden of ventilatory defects and COPD.

<h4>Background</h4>Burden, phenotype and risk-factors of lung function defects in successfully treated tuberculosis cases are unclear.<h4>Methods</h4>We performed spirometry with bronchodilators in new drug-sensitive adult (≥18 years) pulmonary tuberculosis cases during the 1...

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Main Authors: Akshay N Gupte, Mandar Paradkar, Sriram Selvaraju, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra Shivakumar, Krithikaa Sekar, Srinivasa Marinaik, Ayesha Momin, Archana Gaikwad, Premkumar Natrajan, Munivardhan Prithivi, Gomathy Shivaramakrishnan, Neeta Pradhan, Rewa Kohli, Swapnil Raskar, Divyashri Jain, Rani Velu, Bharath Karthavarayan, Rahul Lokhande, Nishi Suryavanshi, Nikhil Gupte, Lakshmi Murali, Sundeep Salvi, William Checkley, Jonathan Golub, Robert Bollinger, Vidya Mave, Chandrasekaran Padmapriyadarasini, Amita Gupta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217289

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