Extra pulmonary location of the adult worms especially in the brain results in more severe manifestations.
In twelve (75%) of these, positive sequences for IS6110 (suggests the presence of M. tuberculosis) were found, of these, in turn, eight were of pulmonary location, 3 were extrapulmonary, and one was both pulmonary and extrapulmonary.
The following data were associated with an increased risk of transfer in the ICU during their stay in the hematology ward: ALL, more than three previous episodes of febrile neutropenia, microbiological documentation, clinical pulmonary location, and abnormal chest X-ray.
According to Geize et al., sarcoidosis can be encountered in extra-pulmonary locations, in approximately 30%% of cases [2].
Surprisingly, both patients presented with rare extra-pulmonary locations of TB (bone TB and intestinal TB respectively), whereas 95.3% of the cases reported from 2001 to 2004 presented with pulmonary TB.
18 21 There were indications that PET-CT may perform better than conventional imaging in detecting soft-tissue lesions in non-pulmonary locations, 18 19 possibly including distal nodal involvement.
Then, both readers were asked to confirm or exclude the same finding on DTS images and to express diagnostic confidence about lesion nature and pulmonary or extra-pulmonary location according to the scoring system reported on Table 1.
However, it is not known how the ADA will perform for the diagnosis of tuberculous pleuritis, a common extra-pulmonary location in severely immunocompromised HIV patients.
On the other hand, the proportion of tuberculosis of different extra-pulmonary organ locations is small in developed countries, and it would be impractical to have many different outcome assessment systems for pulmonary and extra-pulmonary disease.
An incidental PE with saddle pulmonary artery location was found in 7 patients, all of whom were admitted; 3 died within 30 days of ED presentation (a 43% mortality rate).
Pulmonary thrombus location was evaluated prior to the procedure.
