Tuberculosis (Screening)

Routine X-Rays Evaluated in High-Risk Pregnant Women

Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 18th, 1996

Routine chest x-ray detected few tuberculosis cases in a group of pregnant patients at high-risk for the disease examined at a New York City hospital.

"Future studies are needed to redefine which asymptomatic pregnant patients should be screened with tuberculin skin test and to clarify the timing and appropriateness of chest x-ray testing in this patient population," researcher Joanna Tulczynska and colleagues from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine wrote in an abstract presented at the 1996 Clinical World Congress on Diseases of the Chest, held October 27-31 in San Francisco, California.

The failure to diagnose tuberculosis during pregnancy can have...

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