A STUDY OF CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL PROFILE OF SPUTUM POSITIVE TUBERCULOSIS AMONG ELDERLY PATIENTS

Abstract

Tuberculosis has forever been known to mankind to cause morbidity and mortality. The disease has been extensively studied in the younger population to present with typical symptoms and radiological features, but has rather not got the importance it deserves in the elderly. Hence, through this study we wish to study the various patterns of presentation of the geriatric population with tuberculosis and also the various radiological lesions that these patients demonstrate, so that earlier diagnosis is aimed and the definitive diagnosis of tuberculosis is done in the geriatric population despite the lack of typical features.