Fatores prognósticos de letalidade da neurotuberculose na criança

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Murilo Gimenes [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/9647
• topic: Neurotuberculose; Meningoencefalite tuberculosa; Meningite tuberculosa; Tuberculose meníngea/patologia; Tuberculose meníngea/prognóstico; Tuberculose meníngea/diagnóstico; Meningoencefalite; Tuberculose meníngea

Objective: to establish the prognostic factors of lethality in neurotuberculosis in a pediatric population according to clinical manifestations, epidemiological data and laboratory findings. Methods: retrospective study of 141 in-patients diagnosed with neurotuberculosis between 1982 to 2005, in the Nossa Senhora da Glória Children’s Hospital, Vitória –ES. The following prognostic parameters were considered for the study: sex, age, bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccination (BCG), tuberculin test (PPD), close contact with tuberculosis, concomitant miliary tuberculosis, seizures, clinical staging, cranial computed tomography and cerebrospinal fluid parameters (pleocytosis, glucose, protein levels and bacillus presence). Results: 17% of the patients died. The determinants of poor outcome were: negative history of contact with tuberculosis, negative PPD reaction and coma. Age and cerebrospinal fluid parameters did not change the outcome. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to investigate the relationship between the prognostic elements and the outcome death. The presence of coma at diagnosis (OR= 0.12, 95%CI= 0.04 a 0.35) and a lack of history of close contact with tuberculosis (OR= 3,47, 95%CI= 1.11 a 10.82) were significantly related to death, independently of the other prognostic factors. Conclusions: in our study, the prognostic factors of lethality among children with neurotuberculosis were coma upon hospitalization, and a lack of close contact with tuberculosis. Therefore, the extensive search for a history of close contact when seeing a child with neurotuberculosis suspicion should be part of assistant doctors’ daily routines.