Table 1.
Demographic, clinical, and radiological characteristics of the 162 included patients
|
Characteristic |
N (%) |
|---|---|
| Median age, years (range) | 54 (34–74) |
| Gender |
|
| Male |
102 (63.0) |
| Female |
60 (37.0) |
| HIV |
|
| Positive |
7 (4.3) |
| Negative |
98 (60.5) |
| NA |
57 (35.2) |
| Symptoms |
|
| Cough |
84 (51.9) |
| Hemoptysis |
17 (10.5) |
| General symptomsa |
73 (45.1) |
| Fever |
43 (26.5) |
| Night sweats |
26 (16.0) |
| NA |
11 (6.8) |
| Chest radiography |
|
| Nodules |
87 (53.7) |
| Pneumonia |
44 (27.1) |
| Excavation |
14 (8.6) |
| Pleurisy |
21 (13.0) |
| NA |
13 (8.0) |
| Chest CT scan |
|
| Nodules |
98 (60.5) |
| Pneumonia |
49 (30.2) |
| Excavation |
27 (16.7) |
| Pleurisy |
21 (13.0) |
| NA |
29 (17.9) |
| Final diagnosis |
|
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis |
30 (18.5) |
| Pleural Tuberculosis |
2 (1.2) |
| Tuberculosis sequelae |
11 (6.8) |
| NTMb infection |
9 (5.6) |
| Non-mycobacterial lung infectionc |
28 (17.3) |
| Bronchial disease exacerbation |
7 (4.3) |
| Non-mycobacterial granulomatosis disease |
7 (4.3) |
| Lung cancer |
21 (13.0) |
| Otherd |
23 (14.2) |
| No diagnosis |
18 (11.1) |
| NA | 6 (3.7) |
aGeneral symptoms: asthenia and/or loss of appetite and/or loss of weight.
bNTM: Nontuberculous mycobacteria (including four M. avium, two M. xenopi, one M. szulgai, one M. malmoense, and one other).
cIncluding 24 infectious pneumonia, two lung abscesses, and two invasive aspergillosis.
dIncluding eight non-infectious pneumonia, five acute pulmonary edema, five idiopathic hemoptysis, two interstitial lung disease exacerbations, one pulmonary infarction, one intra-alveolar hemorrhage, and one inflammatory pseudo-tumor lung.