Semester 3 - Respiratory > Session 7 - TB > Flashcards

Session 7 - TB Flashcards

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What was the biggest advance in TB treatment in the 1900’s?

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• Development of the BCG vaccine

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Where is TB most prevalent?

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• India and China

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What area has the highest incidence of TB?

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Subsahran Africa

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Outline two usual treatments of TB

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  • Thoracoplasty (crushing of the chest, reduces area for TB to thrive)
  • Exercise

Phrenic nerve crush - Paralyzed diaphragm, reduces ability of lung to expand

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What does the BCG vaccine prevent?

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• Childhood TB

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Why are Mycobacteria hard to stain?

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• Lipid-rich cell wall that retains some dyes, and resists decolourisation with acid

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What is TB latency?

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  • First encounter may not cause disease

* Mycobacterium lives in system, can be reactivated spontaneously or as a result of a new encounter

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When is risk of developing TB greatest after initial infection?

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  • First 2 years - 5%

* Rest of lifetime - 5%

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What are the two main stages of tuberculosis infection?

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  • Primary complex

* Post-primary infection

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What is the primary complex in TB?

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• Infection begins with local scarring

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What is post primary infection of TB?

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  • Refers to development of TB beyond the first few weeks

* Infection may spread throughout the body via blood (miliary spread) or develop into localised infection (meningitis)

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Outline the pathology of TB infection

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  • Mycobacterium Tuberculosis phagocytosed
  • Escapes from phagolysosome to multiply in the cytoplasm
  • Causes intense immune response, which damages lung
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How does intense immune response damage the body?

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  • Local tissue destruction - Cavitation in the lung

* Cytokine mediated systemic effects - Fever and weight loss

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Why are the symptoms of late stage TB so varied?

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Can effect every organ in the body, mimicking inflammatory and malignant disease

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Give five main structures which can be affected by TB

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  • Pulmonary tuberculosis
  • Tuberculous meningitis
  • Lymph node tuberculosis (Often painless, most commonly in non-asians)
  • Kidney infection
  • Lumbosacral spine
  • Inflammation of large joints
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Give some symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis

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  • Chronic cough
  • Haemoptysis
  • Fever
  • Weight loss
  • Recurrent bacterial pneumonia
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What does tuberculous menigitis present with?

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  • Fever

* Slowly detriorating level of conciousness

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What are the symptoms of kidney infection with TB?

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  • Signs of local infection
  • Fever
  • Weight loss
  • Ureteric fibrosis
  • Hydronephropathy
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What are the two main symptoms of lumbosacral spine infection with TB?

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  • Vertebral collapse

* Nerve compression

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What can inflammation of the large joints due to TB cause?

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• Destructive arthritis

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Outline what occurs after mycobacterium tuberculosis enters lung tissue in terms of immune response

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  • Ingested by macrophages, escapes from paholysosome to multiply in cytoplasm
  • Immune response provoked via IL-12
  • IL2 drives the release of IFN-y and TNF-a from Natural Killer and CD4+ T helper cells
  • Cytokines activate and recruit more macrophages from the site of infection, resulting in formation of Granulomas
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Give some primary changes in TB

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  • Few symptoms

* Lymph nodes often enlarge

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Outline some post-primary changes in TB

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• Cough (not always productive)
• Fever (towards the end of the day or at night)
Weight loss and general debility

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What does chest x-ray of post primary TB cause?

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  • Patchy solid lesions
  • Cativated solid lesions
  • Streaky fibrosis

Flecks of calcification

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Give six signs of respiratory TB
* Non-specific * Pallor * Fever * Weight loss * Clubbing * Palpable lymph nodes
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Give seven symptoms of respiratory TB
``` • Primary usually asymptomatic • Post Primary ○ Tiredness and malaise ○ Weigth loss and anorexia ○ Fever ○ Cough ○ Breathlessness ``` Haemoptysis
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Give six x-ray changes in Respiratory TB
* Shadowing * Cavities * Consolidation * Calcification * Cardiomegaly * Miliary seeds
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Who is pleural TB more common in?
Males
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Give two mechanisms by which pleural TB occurs?
• Hypersensitivity response in primary infection • Tuberculosis epyema with ruptured cavited ○ Burrows through chest wall
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What is lymph node tuberculosis?
• More common in children, women and Asians. Painless, occurs most commonly in the neck
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What are two types of osteo-articular TB?
* Tuberculous Spondylitis | * Poncet's disease
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What is tuberculosis spondylitis?
* Most common form of osteoarticular TB * Starts in sub-chondral bone and spread to vertebral bodies and join space, before following the longitudinal ligaments anterior and psoterior to the spine * Mainly occurs in the lower thoracic and lumbar spine and can be very high
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What is poncet's disease?
• Aseptic polyarthritis Knees, ankles and elbows
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What is miliary tuberculosis?
• Bacili spread through blood stream during primary infection of reactivation • Lungs are always involved ○ Spread throughout both lungs, as it is in the blood ○ Many visible through the lungs on an x-ray
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Give four symptoms of miliary tuberculosis
* Headaches which suggest meningeal involvement * Few respiratory symptoms * Ascites may be present * Retinal involvement in children
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What are the three factors which need to be investigated to give a TB diagnosis?
* Clinical features * Radiological features * Microbiology
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Give three of the main clinical features of TB
* Cough * Night fever * Weight loss
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What are five main radiological features of TB?
* Shadowing * Cavities * Consolidation * Cardiomegaly * Miliary seeds
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What does microbiology need to achieve in order to diagnose TB?
* Identification of bacillus * Direct smear and subsequent culture of the appropriate body fluid * Important to isolate organism and determine it susceptibility to drugs
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Outline treatment of patients with TB
* Initially treated with four drugs for 2 months | * 2 drugs are then dropped, and the other two continue to be used to treat
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Why are multiple drugs used in TB?
• To combat resistance (5-10% patients TB resistant to isoniazid)
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Why are there problems with compliance, and what can be done to solve these problems?
• Long drug regime with several different pills to take | Patients instead put on directly observed therapy
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What does directly observed therapy do?
• Increases adherence to antibiotic treatment
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What are four drugs given in the initial phase of TB treatment?
* Riampicin * Isoniazid * Pyrazinamide * Ethambutol
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What are the two drugs given in the continuation phase of TB treatment?
* Rifampicin | * Isoniazid
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Give six side effects of rifampicin
* Hepatitis * Rash * Flu-like symptoms * Shock * Acute Renal Failure * Thrombocytopenic purpura
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What three side effects of pyrazinamide
• Rash, hepatitis, athralgia
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Give a side effect of ethambutol
• Optic neuritis
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Describe the mechanism of multidrug-resistant TB
* Caused by incompleted treatment * Residence in a country with a high incidence of MDRTB * Failure to response clinically to an adequate regimen
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How is multidrug resistant TB treated?
• A grueling regimen of several drugs at once
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What is the BCG vaccine?
* Attenuated Live Bovine Tuberculosis Bacillus | * Bacteria retain a strong enough antigenicity to act as a vaccine for human TB
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What are two issues with BCG?
* Has variable efficacy depending on genetic variation of population and BCG strain * Efficacy lasts 15 years at most
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What were UK regulations on vaccination up to 2005?
* All children ages 13 were immunised along with all neonates born into high risk groups * Now only high risk groups given, as cost effectiveness has fallen due to falling incidence rates of TB
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Give five groups which are at risk of TB
* HIV patients * Those suffering from malnutrition * People living in overcrowded accommodation * IV drug abusers * Smokers * Diabetics * Asians
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What is the link between HIV and TB?
* Much more likely to develop TB if already have HIV * Risk estimated to be 20-37 times greater in HIV infected people than uninfected people * Leading cause of morbidity and mortality among HIV patients
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Describe what occurs when a case of TB is suspected
* Contact is immediately made with TB radiology * Patient goes straight to TB clinic and given a questionnaire and asked to give sputum samples * Treatment within 7 days
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