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What causes anthracofibrosis?
Either tuberculosis or smoke
Seyed Hamid Hemmati1, Mosayeb Shahriar2, Nazar Ali Molaei3
ABSTRACT
Objective: To define the prevalence of anthracofibrosis in fibreoptic bronchoscopy of highly suspected patients who were likely to have pulmonary tuberculosis but they had three times negative sputum exams for acid-fast bacilli and to determine the association of anthracofibrosis with tuberculosis and prolonged smoke exposure.
Methodology: The fibreoptic bronchoscopy was done in 207 patients; 106 male and 101 female their age was from 15 to 91 years and most of them were referred by the professors of infectious diseases. Exact medical history was taken and specially focused on the past medical history of tuberculosis and chronic exposure to any kind of smoke. Then they were divided into two groups, with or without anthracofibrosis, and then this data was analyzed among the two groups
Results: Anthracofibrosis was diagnosed in 34 cases (19 female, 15 male). Past medical history of pulmonary tuberculosis was positive in 45 patients (26 males and 19 females) and Seventy one patients (38 female, 33 male) had positive history of prolonged exposure to smoke but, the most common cause of smoke exposure in females was the cooking of bread in the traditional clay oven (92 percent) and smoking in males (96 percent).
Conclusions: The finding of this study suggests that the incidence of active or old tuberculous infection was significantly higher in anthracofibrosis group in males as well as females.
Although prolonged smoke exposure was significantly higher in anthracofibrosis group but, this relationship was just true in females.
KEY WORDS: Anthracofibrosis, Bronchoscopy, Tuberculosis, Smoke, Oven.
Pak J Med Sci April - June 2008 (Part-II) Vol. 24 No. 3 395-398
How to cite this article:
Hemmati SH, Shahriar M, Molaei NA.What causes anthracofibrosis? Either tuberculosis or smoke. Pak J Med Sci 2008;24(3):395-8.
1. Seyed Hamid Hemmati, MD, FCCP
Departments of Thoracic Surgery,
2. Mosayeb Shahriar, MD
3. Nazar Ali Molaei, MD
Departments of Pulmonology,
1-3: Zahedan University of Medical Science,
Zahedan,
Iran.
Correspondence:
Dr. Seyed Hamid Hemmati
E-mail: Hemmati@zdmu.ac.ir
* Received for Publication: October 26, 2007
* Revision Received: March 25, 2008
* Revision Accepted: March 26, 2008
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