INCIDENCE RATE OF EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN URMIA CITY DURING 2004-2007

Gholami, A and Moosavi jahr, L (2010) INCIDENCE RATE OF EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN URMIA CITY DURING 2004-2007. The Journal of Urmia Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, 8 (2). pp. 83-89.

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Abstract

Extra-pulmonary tuberculosis may develop simultaneously in the course of pulmonary tuberculosis or it may appear years after the primary pulmonary infection. About one-third of tuberculosis patients have extra pulmonary tuberculosis. This study investigated the incidence extra pulmonary tuberculosis in Urmia during 2004-2007. Materials & Methods: This study cross-sectional retrospective study gained the required data of patients from their documented files. SPSS was used to analyze the data. Results: From 382 tuberculosis cases, 134 patients with extra pulmonary were identified (incidence rate of four years = 16.38 per 100,000). The maximum incidence rate (4.44 per 100000) was in 2006 and the minimum incidence rate (3.76 per 100000) was in 2007. Seventy cases (52.2%) were males and 64 were women (47.8%). Sex proportion was 1/09. Tuberculosis lymphadenitis was the prevalent form of extra pulmonary tuberculosis. Conclusion: In this study we observed that extra pulmonary tuberculosis involves more than one-third of tuberculosis patients and the incidence rate increased during the first three years (2004-2006) and decreased in the last year (2007)

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