Acute Presentation and Management of Abdominal Tuberculosis: A Ten-year Experience at a Tertiary Care Center in Pakistan

A prospective interventional study was conducted in Services Instituton of Medical Sciences all patients who underwent emergency laparotomy from 2008-2018 due to abdominal tuberculosis. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 21

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Key information

Conditions

Tuberculosis; Abdomen Actinomycetales Infections Bacterial Infections Bacterial Infections and Mycoses Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections Infections Mycobacterium Infections Tuberculosis

Age range

12 year–90 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Services hospital

Lahore, Punjab Province, 54000, Pakistan

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Both sexes and age between years and 90 years
Patients presenting with acute abdomen and who underwent exploratory laparotomy
Patients who diagnosis confirmed on biopsy (caseating granulomas)

Exclusion criteria

Peritoneal tuberculosis
Other causes of acute abdomen (Typhoid perforation)
Patients diagnosed with abdominal tuberculosis and on conservative management

Treatment and study plan

Exploratory laparotomy

Procedure

Patients presenting with acute abdomen were operated. Exploratory Laparotomy of patients was done. Further procedure was done according to peroperative findings. Ileostomy for perforation of gut, stricturoplasty for strictutre, biopsy for mesentric lymphadenopathy

Primary outcomes

Percentage of patients who develop complications after surgery

Time frame: 9 months

Complications of surgery like leakage of gut content, enterocutaneous fistula, intestinal obstruction
Percentage of patients who develop recurrence of abdominal tuberculosis (elevated ESR, CT scan findings of abdominal tuberculosis)

Time frame: 1 year

Recurrence of abdominal tuberclosis assessed by ESR, CT scan Abdomen, Biopsy
Mortality rate

Time frame: 9 months

death due to postoperative complications

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Services Hospital, Lahore

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Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2008
Primary completion: 2018
Study completion: 2018
First posted: Apr 17, 2019
Registry last updated: Apr 17, 2019

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