Bronquiectasias como complicación de tuberculosis pulmonar en pacientes atendidos en el Hospital General del Norte de Guayaquil IESS CEIBOS 2022-2023.

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial infection that mainly affects the lungs, is the second global cause of mortality from an infectious agent, after HIV, and is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is estimated that approximately half of TB patients develop a complication throughout their lives, with bronchiectasis being one of the most frequent sequelae. Materials and methods: a descriptive and cross-sectional investigation is carried out with the purpose of analyzing the prevalence of phenomena or characteristics within a given population to examine the presence and distribution of bronchiectasis in relation to pulmonary tuberculosis. Results: a prevalence of 61.5% was determined, that is, around 61.5% of patients diagnosed with pulmonary TB developed bronchiectasis as a complication during the analysis period, where the most affected are people over 60 years of age, predominating the male sex.