Abstract
There is currently no convenient way to effectively evaluate whether a miliary tuberculosis patient is complicated with central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis. We aimed to find such a way by analyzing the clinical data of these patients. Fifty patients with confirmed miliary tuberculosis and 31 patients with confirmed miliary tuberculosis complicated with CNS tuberculosis from 2010 to 2014 were selected. Their general conditions, clinical features and laboratory tests were analyzed. Factors that were significantly different between them were chosen to performed multivariate and univariate logistic regression analyses, and factors with significant P values were used to establish a scoring system. Eight factors, i.e., age, cough, nausea, headache, hemoglobin (HGB), serum albumin (ALB), C-reactive protein (CRP) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), were significantly different (P < 0.05). Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that ALB was the independent risk predictor (HR = 1.29, 95% CI 1.09-1.52, P < 0.01), whereas the others were non-independent predictors except age (P < 0.05). The scoring system was based on a summation of the scores of the assigned values of the seven predictors and had an area under the cu...Continue Reading
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