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- Urinary tuberculosis is rare but difficult to diagnose due to the lack of specific symptoms, making it often overlooked in recent years.
- A study over the past 5 years identified 12 patients with urinary tuberculosis, with common symptoms including frequent urination and blood in urine, diagnosed through advanced testing methods.
- Most patients were treated with a combination of medications and showed positive treatment results, highlighting the need for awareness and suspicion of this condition in patients with persistent urinary issues without clear causes.
Article Abstract
Urinary tuberculosis has been rare in recent years and its diagnosis is difficult because there are no disease-specific symptoms. We tried to clarify the occurrence of urinary tuberculosis in recent years in our area. During the past 5 years, there were 12 patients with urinary tuberculosis in the clinics that participated in this study. Their chief complaints were frequent voiding in 7 patients and gross hematuria in 3 patients. They were diagnosed by nucleic acid amplification tests and imaging modalities such as excretory urography, computed tomography, and/or cystoscopy. Most of the patients received multidrug treatment and had relatively favorable treatment outcomes. There has been a small but neglected number of patients with urinary tuberculosis in recent years. We should keep this rare and difficult-to-diagnose disease in mind and suspect it when patients complain of longstanding urinary symptoms with no obvious cause.
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