Radiographical Characteristics In Patients Coinfected With Human Immunodeficiency Virus And Tuberculosis

Patients with both human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infectionand tuberculosis (TB) are referred to as HIV/TB co-infected patients, whohave different radiographic findings. For example, pulmonary lesions areless likely to be contained within upper lobes and back lower lobes, withother parts of the lung affected easily; disseminated TB andextrapulmonary TB are more common compared with HIV negative TBpatients; types of lesion are more complicated and lymphadenopathy ismore common in the mediastinum and hilum in co-infected cases.Familiarizing with these particular characteristics is conducive to thediagnosis and treatment of HIV/TB co-infection, and is helpful to reducingmortality in co-infected patients. In this article, pathological change andaccording imaging characteristics in HIV/TB co-infected patients arereviewed.