Frequency of Spinal Tuberculosis in Diabetics With Highly Suspected Clinical Features of Tuberculous Spine

Abstract

Objective: Spinal tuberculosis is a health condition that cause neurological issue & impacts quality of life. This becomes more challenging when occurred in the diabetic patients. Frequency of spinal tuberculosis among the diabetic cases presenting with the highly suspected clinical features of the tuberculosis spine.
Methodology: This was cross sectional study conducted on 300 patients in department of interventional radiology of Ittefaq Trust Hospital situated in Lahore, Pakistan. The inclusion criteria was either gender with age of 30-70 years & strong clinical suspicion of spinal TB. Patients’ blood sugar level of fasting greater then 126mg/dl. Patients were subjected to the MRI for identification of clinical features of the strongly suspected cases. Data entry and analysis was done by using SPSS 25inc. descriptive statistics was calculated along with the application of the chi square test to find out the impact of other variables on of the spinal TB. A p-value 0.05 as significant,
Results: 300 patients when evaluated, it was noted that mean age of the patients was 53.47±9.93 years at the time of presentation. Majority of the patients with tuberculosis was male 178(59.7%). Mean duration of the disease was found to be 14.7±9.4 months. Radiological scan was done, and it was clarified that lumbar spine was involved in 240(80%) cases and 2 vertebrae was involved in 170(56.7%) cases. 159(53.4%) patients were having spinal tuberculosis along with diabetes mellitus.
Conclusion: It is important to check the diabetic cases with back pain for spinal tuberculosis for early management accordingly.