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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Apr 27.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2008 Aug 7;359(6):563–574. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0800106

Table 3.

Hospitalization and Resective Thoracic Surgery among Patients with XDR Tuberculosis.*

Characteristic Value
Patients hospitalized during individualized treatment regimen — no./total no. (%) 11/48 (22.9)
No. of days of hospitalization during individualized treatment regimen — median (interquartile range) 14 (5–54)
Patients undergoing surgical resection during individualized treatment regimen — no./total no. (%) 7/48 (14.6)
Type of surgery — no. (%)
 Lobectomy 5 (10.4)
 Pneumonectomy 1 (2.1)
 Cavitary resection 1 (2.1)
No. of months from treatment initiation to surgery — median (interquartile range) 11.6 (7.1–24.1)
Patients with positive sputum culture at surgery — no. (%) 3 (42.9)
No. of months of treatment for patients undergoing surgery— median (interquartile range) 31.2 (25.1–57.9)
Patients undergoing surgery who subsequently died or whose treatment failed — no. (%) 2 (28.6)
*

XDR denotes extensively drug-resistant.