Table 4.

Identified groups of DS-TB patients and radiological characteristics.

	# patient	Radiological characteristics		Comorbidities	Average age (years)
GROUP I. Pro-inflammatory cytokines and platelet factors elevation	1	Two caverns in RLL	100% Presence of cavitations	50% Type 2 Diabetes mellitus	41.5
	2	Caverns in LUL
GROUP II. Platelet factors elevation but not pro-inflammatory cytokines	3	Both upper lobes with cavitated lesions	66.6% presence of cavitations. 33.3% Lung affection without cavitations.	33.3% Type 2 Diabetes mellitus	39
	4	Left apical caverns, cavern at the level of lingula, superior segment of LLL with two caverns
	5	Right basal consolidation, reticulonodular pattern
GROUP III. Main elevation of pro-inflammatory cytokines	6	Adenopathies, multiple cavitations. Loss of left pulmonary parenchyma.	66.6% presence of adenopathies. 100% destruction of lung parenchyma. 100% presence of cavitations.	100% Type 2 Diabetes mellitus. 33.3% Previous pulmonary disease. 33.3% Dyslipidemia. 33.3% Smoking.	44
	7	Adenopathies, multiple cavitations, destruction of right lung parenchyma
	8	Multiple caverns. Lung parenchymal destruction in the LUL.
GROUP IV. Low levels of platelet factors and pro-inflammatory cytokines	9	Pulmonary nodule	100% Lung affection without cavitations	None	35.5
	10	Bilateral reticular pattern, pleural thickening

RLL, Right Lower Lobe; LUL, Left Upper Lobe; LLL, Left Lower Lobe.