Open AccessTuberculosis spine: Therapeutically refractory disease
Author(s) -
Anil K. Jain,
Ish Kumar Dhammi,
Prashant Kumar Modi,
Jitendra Kumar,
Ravi Sreenivasan,
Namita Singh Saini
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of orthopaedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3727
pISSN - 0019-5413
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5413.93685
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , refractory (planetary science) , magnetic resonance imaging , multi drug resistant tuberculosis , erythrocyte sedimentation rate , bone marrow , histopathology , surgery , radiology , pathology , mycobacterium tuberculosis , physics , astrobiology
India ranks second amongst the high-burden multi drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) countries, with an estimated incidence of 2.3% MDR-TB cases amongst the new cases and 17.2% amongst the previously treated cases. The diagnosis and treatment protocol for MDR-TB of the spine are not clearly established. We report outcome of a series of 15 cases of TB spine who were suspected to be therapeutically refractory cases (MDR-TB) on the basis of clinicoradiological failures of initial treatment.