Diagnosis of tuberculosis in individuals with respiratory symptoms. Commentary on the II Guidelines of the Brazilian Society of Pulmonology and Phthisiology and the Ministry of Health*

Participation of researchers from the Brazilian Network of Tuberculosis Research in the activities of the Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology, official publication of the Brazilian Society of Pulmonology and Phthisiology

Cystic Fibrosis Patients Evaluation in the Last Decades in a Referral Center, Tehran-Iran

Background Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most prevalent lethal chronic genetic and multivariate disease, widespread in Iranian population. The aim of this study was to evaluate the condition of patients with CF from various dimensions in the last decades in Iran.<b...

معرفی یک مورد جذام حنجره

    Introduction: Leprosy is an ancient deforming disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, which is still poorly understood and often feared by the general public and even by some in the health care professions. Fortunately, the outlook for patients has dramatically improved over the last three decades with the introduction of multi-drug treatment and management strategies that have somewhat dim...

Evaluation of Active Case Finding (ACF) of Tuberculosis in Slums Population in North of Iran

Background At present of the limitation of the current case finding strategies and the global urgency to improve tuberculosis (TB) case finding, a renewed interest in active case finding (ACF) has risen. World Health Organization (WHO) calls for research on TB screening among low-income countries because of the limitation of the passive case finding strategies. We aimed to evaluated Active Case...

Validity of Spirometry for Diagnosis of Cough Variant Asthma

  Background Cough variant asthma (CVA) is a chronic or recurrent cough without wheezing accompanied by bronchial hyper-responsiveness and eosinophilic inflammation of the airways. This study aimed to evaluate the validity of spirometry in the diagnosis of CVA, as well as determining the specificity and sensitivity of spirometry parameters in CVA. Materials and Methods This descriptive observat...