Volume : 6, Issue : 6, June - 2017

ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS CRITERIA FOR TYPHOID FEVER

Dr. Sushil J. Sikchi

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;letter-spacing:-.05pt">The diagnosis of typhoid fever is usually obvious, but it can be difficult when the clinical findings are not typical. The disease is curable, but the mortality rate from typhoid fever in the Western world is still about 2%. In many developing countries Typhoid fever is a major health problem. In India it is the fifth most common infectious disease, and its clinical features are similar to other types of bacterial enterocolitis.</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;letter-spacing:-.05pt">This is at least partly due to a delay in diagnosis, which occurs either because the disease is initially not considered or because definitive blood cultures require at least 18-36 hr and in widal test &nbsp;patients take over a week to show positive results . Imaging techniques have not been used in the diagnostic approach to typhoid fever. This study aims at establishing&nbsp; the&nbsp; efficacy of ultrasound in early diagnosis of typhoid fever and access the correlation with Widal test &amp; blood culture study.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;&#10;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">&nbsp;</span></p>