A Comparison of Clinical and Radiographic Signs of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease, Destructive Drug-Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis and a Combination of Nontuberculous Mycobacterium Pulmonary Disease and Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Dmitrii Giller,
Galina Scherbakova,
Inga Enilenis,
Ivan Martel,
Oleg Kesaev,
Vadim Koroev,
Anna Popova,
Alexandr Ilyukhin,
Valeria Basangova,
Sergey Smerdin,
Shokirjon Mayusupov,
Sergey Saenko,
Olga Frolova,
Veronika Vinarskaya,
Lyudmila Severova
Affiliations
Dmitrii Giller
Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery Named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow 119991, Russia
Galina Scherbakova
Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery Named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow 119991, Russia
Inga Enilenis
Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery Named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow 119991, Russia
Ivan Martel
Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery Named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow 119991, Russia
Oleg Kesaev
Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery Named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow 119991, Russia
Vadim Koroev
Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery Named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow 119991, Russia
Anna Popova
Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery Named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow 119991, Russia
Alexandr Ilyukhin
Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery Named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow 119991, Russia
Valeria Basangova
Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery Named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow 119991, Russia
Sergey Smerdin
State Budgetary Healthcare Institution of the Moscow Region “Moscow Regional Clinical Anti-Tuberculosis Dispensary”, Sukmanikha Village, Shchelkovsky District, Moscow 170555, Russia
Shokirjon Mayusupov
Republican Specialized Scientific-Practical Medical Center for Phthisiology and Pulmonology, St. Majlisy, Shaykhotokhur District, Tashkent 100071, Uzbekistan
Sergey Saenko
Rostov Regional Clinical Center of Phthisiopulmonology, St. Orskaya, 24, Rostov-on-Don 344065, Russia
Olga Frolova
Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery Named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow 119991, Russia
Veronika Vinarskaya
Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery Named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow 119991, Russia
Lyudmila Severova
Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery Named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow 119991, Russia
A misdiagnosis of isolated pulmonary tuberculosis (pTB) is highly likely when a patient has nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTMPD) or a combination of nontuberculous mycobacterium pulmonary disease and pulmonary tuberculosis. Frequently, bacterial excretion is absent or only Mycobacteria tuberculosis (MBT) is found. This often results in an incorrect diagnosis and subsequent misinformed treatment regimes. In order to determine possible clinical and radiographic differences between patients with NTMPD (Group 1), destructive drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis (Group 3) and a combination of NTMPD and pTB (Group 2) we compare clinical and radiographic signs for these three patient groups. When comparing with Group 3 (2.5%), Groups 1 (25%) and 2 (17.4%) have a substantially higher incidence of pulmonary haemorrhages. Thus, upon clinically observing the combination of pTB and NTMPD, there are no pathognomonic clinical and radiographic detected symptoms. However, the presence of an indolent course, hemoptysis and bronchiectasis in the presence of acid-fast bacteria (or identified MBT) in the sputum makes it possible to suspect not simple pTB, but a combination of pTB and NTMPD. To clarify this necessitated in-depth bacteriological examination.
