Volume 19, Number 3—March 2013
CME ACTIVITY - Research
Clinical and Therapeutic Features of Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Table 1
Demographic and clinical features for patients with PNTM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1993– 2011*
Characteristic | No. (%) patients |
---|---|
Male sex | 108 (62.1) |
Age, median y (range) |
55 (24–86)† |
Past or current smoker‡ |
95 (62.1) |
Clinical findings | |
Respiratory symptoms only | 106 (60.9) |
Fever and weight loss | 15 (8.6) |
Respiratory and systemic symptoms
(fever, weight loss) |
53 (30.5) |
Previous TB treatment | |
Treated previously for TB | 101 (58) |
Referred while being treated for TB |
80 (79) |
Radiology results (lesion type) | |
Cavitary disease | 118 (67.8) |
Fibronodular |
56 (32.2) |
Median duration of treatment, mo (range) |
19 (2–36)† |
ATS microbiologic criteria | |
1 positive sputum culture | 47 (27) |
>2 positive sputum cultures |
101 1 (58) |
Bronchoalveolar lavage | 24 (13.8) |
Lung biopsy | 2 (1.1)) |
*PNTM, pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial disease; TB, tuberculosis; ATS, American Thoracic Society.
†Data are as indicated in the left column.
‡Smoking data were missing for 21 patients.