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Table 1 Demographic, clinical, and radiological characteristics of the 162 included patients

From: Retrospective observational study of diagnostic accuracy of the Xpert® MTB/RIF assay on fiberoptic bronchoscopy sampling for early diagnosis of smear-negative or sputum-scarce patients with suspected tuberculosis

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)

  1. aGeneral symptoms: asthenia and/or loss of appetite and/or loss of weight.
  2. b NTM: Nontuberculous mycobacteria (including four M. avium, two M. xenopi, one M. szulgai, one M. malmoense, and one other).
  3. cIncluding 24 infectious pneumonia, two lung abscesses, and two invasive aspergillosis.
  4. 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.