To find out the effectiveness of clinical examination for the diagnosis of respiratory tuberculosis, a 78 respiratory tuberculosis patient,s group was matched by sex and age with 78 control healthy subjects. In the result of blood chemistry, mean valu...
To find out the effectiveness of clinical examination for the diagnosis of respiratory tuberculosis, a 78 respiratory tuberculosis patient,s group was matched by sex and age with 78 control healthy subjects. In the result of blood chemistry, mean values of 123.5 ± 62.04 mg/dL in glucose, 429.01 ± 150.77 IU/L in LDH, and 44.51 ± 43.76 IU/L in γ-GTP, were higher than that of the controls (healthy subjects), and 3.51 ± 0.68 mg/dL in albumin was lower than that of the controls. In the result of the haematology examination, mean values of 12.52 ± 3.27 g/dL in hemoglobin, 36.72 ± 7.28% in hematocrit, and 24.61 ± 12.36% in lymphocyte, were lower than that of the controls, 9.23 ± 5.25% in monocyte 78.30 ± 37.35 mm/hr in ESR, and 48.45 ± 35.15 U/L in ADA were higher than that of the controls. For the comparisons of the tuberculosis patients values from normal reference values, 22.2% in glucose, 22.4% in LDH, 25.0% in γ-GTP, 35.4% in albumin, 88% in ESR, and 88.6% in ADA, showed abnormal values. We concluded that the values of glucose, γ -GTP, albumin, WBC, RBC, hemoglobin, hematocrit, lymphocyte, monocyte, ADA, and the ESR were useful in tuberculosis diagnosis.