Articles on Tuberculosis

FARUK ÖZER, MEHMET GÖK, OKTAY İMECIK, ALI ÖZKURT

1993, Vol 9, Issue 4, Page 527-532

We determined the levels of IgG againis myco-bacterial antigen 60 in serum and pleural fluids of 89 patients hospitalized with pleural eğusion and 15 health• individivals choosen as control group, at the Chest Disease Department of Selçuk University Medical Faculty. The cases }vere divided to two...

KEMAL BALCI

1994, Vol 10, Issue 2, Page 129-132

In this article, a latex agglutination test using a new antigen for serodiagnosis of pulmonaty tuberculosis has been described and test results have been presented. Research has been conducted with 107 people including 47 with active pulmonary tuberculosis, 8 with inactive tuberculous lesions, 32...

ERCAN ERTOY, EMİNE İNCİ TUNCER, MECİT SUERDEM

1999, Vol 15, Issue 3, Page 133-138

We evaluated 391 (267 male, 124 female) tuberculosis patients received chemotherapy in the Department of Pul- monary Diseases betvveen 1992 and 1995. For this purpose, we investigated hospital and dispanseries fileş of these patients. İn 323 (80.0 %) cases, definite bacteriologic or pathologic...

ŞEBNEM YOSUNKAYA, FARUK ÖZER, OKTAY İMECİK

2004, Vol 20, Issue 1, Page 13-20

In this study, we have planned to determine: The vaccination situation of the two age groups of children in the first and fifth classes of the primary schools of Konya province by looking at the BCG scars; the effects of BCG vaccination to tuberculin tests; the tuberculin reaction that can...

ŞEBNEM YOSUNKAYA, İBRAHIM SATILMAZ, OKTAY İMECİK

2004, Vol 20, Issue 1, Page 21-27

We evaluated retrospectively 230 new pulmonary tuberculosis from 395 tuberculosis patient that were applied to Konya Mümtaz Koru Dispansery between years 1998 and 2001. 123 patients (53.5%) was smear (+) and 24 (10.4%) was smear (-). 83 (36.1%) patients had been diagnosed without suputum test. The...

HAMDİ ARBAĞ, YAVUZ UYAR, MUSTAFA CIHAT AVUNDUK, KAYHAN ÖZTÜRK, ÇAĞATAY HAN ÜLKÜ

2004, Vol 20, Issue 2, Page 89-92

In this study, the pathologic types of the tuberculosis of the parotid gland and the necessity of performing open biopsy in the cases who can not be diagnosed preoperatively were discussed in the three cases. Two of these cases were nodular (localized) type and the other was diffuse type. The...

MUSTAFA KÜRŞAT ÖZVARAN, HACER OKUR, MITHAT ÖZGEL

2004, Vol 20, Issue 3, Page 123-127

In pürine pathway, adenosine deaminase is a cytoplasmic enzyme which changes adenosine into inosine and ammoniumi deoxyadenosine into deoxyinosine and ammonium catalyzed irreversibly. Activation of ADA in human fluids is by two enzymes: ADA1 and ADA2. Increased ADA levels in tuberculosis pleural...

MEHMET ERİKOĞLU, İBRAHIM GÜNEY, ŞAKİR TAVLI, SÜLEYMAN TÜRK

2005, Vol 21, Issue 3, Page 92-96

Tuberculosis (TBC) is an infection that rarely seen in the first year of maximum immunosuppression. Beacuase of its rarity we aimed to present a case of TBC that developed after renal transplantation in our newly established transplantation unit. A live donor renal transplantation was performed on...

FİKRET KANAT, TURGUT TEKE

2006, Vol 22, Issue 4, Page 191-194

Aim: Acute or chronic diseases, malnutrition, and the biological changes reagarding to aging can disrupt protective barriers, impair clearance mechanisms, and contribute to the expected age-related diminution in cellular immune responses to microorganisms such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Case...

FATİH KARA, SAİD BODUR

2008, Vol 24, Issue 1, Page 15-22

Aim: The aim of this study is to evaluate the outcomes of the patients with uncompleted treatment of TB, their demographical properties and to determine the reasons. Material and Method: This descriptive study was carried out throughout Konya in 2001. Total 1979 cases undergoing TB treatment were...

MUHAMMET GÜZEL KURTOĞLU, ŞERİFE YÜKSEKKAYA, MEHMET ÖZDEMİR, BÜLENT BAYSAL

2011, Vol 27, Issue 2, Page 69-72

Early diagnosis and regular follow-up of tuberculosis patients is highly important. For this reason, mycobacteriology laboratories are of great importance in the diagnosis and follow-up of tuberculosis disease. It was aimed to compare direct microscopy and culture results of predignosed patients...

VELİ AVCİ, MEHMET MELEK, SALİM BİLİCİ, PERİHAN TUNÇDEMİR, DENİZ YILMAZ

2016, Vol 32, Issue Ek, Page 56-58

Tuberculosis is still an important public health problem in the World, especially, in undeveloped and developing countries. In this study, the primary diagnosis of intestinal tuberculosis was reported from a 14 months old female patient. The patient applied to our clinic with complaints of refusing...