Symptoms of infectious pleurisy?

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Tuberculous pleurisy is actually a kind of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. This disease is mainly caused by the infection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Some metabolites produced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis enter the pleural cavity of human body and cause a kind of pleurisy. If you want to judge whether you are tuberculous pleurisy, you need to know some common symptoms of tuberculous pleurisy. Symptoms of infectious pleurisy? Now let me tell you something.

Symptoms of infectious pleurisy?

If you often feel chest tightness, chest pain, and dry cough, or shortness of breath, and when sitting, you will have shortness of breath. At this time, you need to consider tuberculous pleurisy. Of course, want to diagnose tuberculous pleurisy or need to go to the hospital for detailed examination.

Tuberculous pleurisy to the hospital after the need to do blood routine examination, also need to do bacteriological examination, such as sputum smear examination, pleural effusion bacteria test, and pleural effusion tuberculosis DNA test. Also need to do X-ray examination, of course, if necessary, can also choose CT examination.

Tuberculous pleurisy can be detected by ultrasound, such as B ultrasound. In addition, we also need to do lung function examination, and pleural biopsy can be carried out when the above examination methods can not be diagnosed. If you are not sure, you can do thoracoscopy.

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Generally speaking, tuberculous pleurisy patients can be found pleural effusion when doing chest X-ray examination, pleural effusion bacteria culture can find the presence of tuberculous bacteria, B-ultrasound examination can also find pleural effusion.