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
Group Intervention Description Exploratory Laparotomy exploratory laparotomy Exploratory Laparotomy of patients presenting acute abdomen and whose diagnosis later on confirmed on histopathology to be tuberculosis
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Mortality rate 9 months death due to postoperative complications
Percentage of patients who develop complications after surgery 9 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
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Services hospital
🇵🇰Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan