Diagnostic value of the urine lipoarabinomannan assay in HIV-positive, ambulatory patients with CD4 below 200 cells/μl in 2 low-resource settings: A prospective observational study
PLoS Medicine May 06, 2019
Huerga H, et al. - Researchers evaluated the diagnostic yield of including lipoarabinomannan assay (LAM) in tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic algorithms in HIV-positive, ambulatory patients with CD4 < 200 cells/μl. In addition, they assessed the mortality risk in LAM-positive patients not diagnosed with other tools and not treated for TB. Using LAM plus the other accessible diagnostic tools, the share of patients diagnosed with TB increased by 38.0% vs a diagnostic algorithm including clinical examination, chest X-ray, and microscopy, and by 34.6% vs an algorithm including clinical examination, chest X-ray, and Xpert. For patients less severely immunocompromised, a similar increase was observed. According to this prospective observational study, in HIV-positive patients with TB signs and symptoms and advanced immunodeficiency, including those with a CD4 count of 100–199 cells/μl, LAM has diagnostic value for detecting TB. Using LAM allowed the diagnosis of TB in half of the patients with confirmed TB disease; these patients would have been missed without it. LAM-enabled rapid identification and treatment of TB may decrease the overall risk of death for these patients.
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