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

Services Hospital, Lahore

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tuberculosis; Abdomen

Treatments: Procedure: exploratory laparotomy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03918226

s16

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 1 patient group

Exploratory Laparotomy

Other group

Description:

Exploratory Laparotomy of patients presenting acute abdomen and whose diagnosis later on confirmed on histopathology to be tuberculosis

Treatment:

Procedure: exploratory laparotomy