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

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Tuberculosis; Abdomen
Interventions
Procedure: exploratory laparotomy
Registration Number
NCT03918226
Lead Sponsor
Services Hospital, Lahore
Brief Summary

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

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
80
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

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Exploratory Laparotomyexploratory laparotomyExploratory Laparotomy of patients presenting acute abdomen and whose diagnosis later on confirmed on histopathology to be tuberculosis
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Mortality rate9 months

death due to postoperative complications

Percentage of patients who develop complications after surgery9 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)1 year

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

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Services hospital

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Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

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