[Diagnosis and short-term therapeutic effect of AIDS complicated by tuberculosis].

OBJECTIVE

To investigate the shore-term therapeutic effects of AIDS complicated by tuberculosis.

METHODS

Ninety-eight AIDS patients with tuberculosis living in a village in Henan province were observed.

RESULTS

Among the 98 patients, fever, cough, night sweating, weight loss, and superficial lymph node swelling were the common symptoms. Highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) combined with a 6-month anti-tuberculosis treatment protocol with streptomycin, isoniazid, rifampin, and pyrazinamide (2SHRZ/4HRZ) resulted in improvement of the patients' clinical symptoms and signs as well as the immune functions.

CONCLUSION

AIDS complicated by tuberculosis should receive due medical attention and sputum smear examination for anti-acid bacillus combined with X-ray examination possesses good diagnostic value for tuberculosis in these patients, for whom short-term anti-tuberculosis treatment may have beneficial effects.