Introduction: The overcrowding of intensive care units during the corona virus pandemic increased the number of patients managed in the emergency department (ED). The detection timely of the predictive factors of mortality and bad outcomes improve the triage of those patients.
Aim: To define the predictive factors of mortality at 30 days among patients admitted on ED for covid-19 pneumonia.
Introduction-aim: The emergence of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a threat to global public health. The aim of our study was to determine risk factors for treatment failure in MDR-TB.
Methods: Retrospective study conducted between January 2000 and March 2019 including patients with MDR-TB.
Introduction-aim: Tuberculous pneumothorax (TP) is a serious complication of cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis. The aim of this study was to identify TP drainage characteristics and difficulties.
Methods: This was a retrospective multicenter study of patients hospitalized for TP between 1999 and 2021 in three hospitals from Tunis (Tunisia): Abderahmen Mami, La Rabta, and Charles Nicolle.
Oral provocation test (OPT) to beta-lactam antibiotics (BL) is a gold standard in allergology investigation. We aimed to demonstrate the contribution of OPT in BL hypersensitivity (HS) indicated as a first step in diagnosis. We conducted a retrospective study from 2007 to 2019, in a single Tunisian tertiary care academic center.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: During the COVID-19(coronavirus-19 disease) pandemic, health care workers (HCWs) faced the risk of infection and distressing work to meet health requirements. The aim of the present stud ywas to evaluate perceptions of HCWs of their security at work in COVID-19 units and their coping strategies, at the military hospital of Tunis, during the second wave of COVID-19.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted via an auto-questionnaire on February 2021.
Introduction: The diagnosis of interstitial lung disease (ILD) requires elimination of underlying connective tissue disease. Consequently, antinuclear antibodies (ANA) are routinely screened in patients with idiopathic interstitial pneumonia. However the clinical usefulness of this practice is not well clear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Allergy to antitubercular drugs is a real hindrance to the management of TB.
Aim: To access the contribution of the reintroduction drug test in the exploration of allergy to anti-tuberculosis treatments.
Methods: Retrospective study of 34 patients treated for tuberculosis who presented a hypersensitivity reaction during a period from January 2011 to December 2017.
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), also known as Von Recklinghausen's disease is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder. It is the most common of phacomatoses. Pulmonary complications have been rarely described in the literature.
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