Comparison of early and late tuberculosis deaths in Korea

Jaehee Lee; Hyun Woo Nam; Sun Ha Choi; Seung Soo Yoo; Shin Yup Lee; Seung Ick Cha; Jae Yong Park; Chang Ho Kim

doi:10.3346/jkms.2017.32.4.700

Comparison of early and late tuberculosis deaths in Korea

Jaehee Lee, Hyun Woo Nam, Sun Ha Choi, Seung Soo Yoo, Shin Yup Lee, Seung Ick Cha, Jae Yong Park, Chang Ho Kim

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Kyungpook National University

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Abstract

The cause of death in patients with tuberculosis (TB) may differ according to the phase of anti-tuberculosis treatment. However, there are limited data regarding this issue in Korea. We compared the cause of death of TB patients who died during the early intensive and late continuation phase of treatment. Twenty (56%) of the 36 early deaths were due to TBrelated causes, whereas 34 (89%) of the 38 late deaths were due to TB-unrelated causes. This finding suggests that TB-related early deaths mainly attributable to delayed diagnosis should be improved to further reduce the overall TB deaths.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	700-703
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Korean Medical Science
Volume	32
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2017.32.4.700
State	Published - 2017

Keywords

Drug susceptibility test
Early deaths
Late deaths
Tuberculosis

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