Prevalence of Tuberculosis in Severe Acute Malnutrition: A Prospective Observational Study

Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) and malnutrition are important causes of morbidity mortality in children the developing world. This study was done to determine prevalence tuberculosis severe acute (SAM) cases observe different presentations SAM. Method: prospective observational carried out Department Paediatrics Adolescent Medicine at a tertiary care center Nepal for duration one year from December 2018 November 2019. All SAM meeting inclusion criteria were evaluated with Mantoux test, chest X-ray, gastric aspirate / sputum analysis gene-Xpert diagnosis TB. Other relevant investigations TB also sent as per clinical scenario. Data entered analyzed using Microsoft excel. Descriptive statistics used data. Results: Total 107 analyzed. The hospital wasting 11.98% 0.73% respectively. 4.67%, commonest being pulmonary (60%). Among cases, 40% without any systemic complaints. Only 19.6% presented nutritional complaint. Conclusions: found that significant percentage had hence adds on importance screening (Pulmonary TB) every case SAM, irrespective symptoms.