Study of Antituberculous Medications in Anthracofibrosis

Imaging Findings of Isolated Bronchial Anthracofibrosis: A Computed Tomography Analysis of Patients With Bronchoscopic and Histologic Confirmation

“…[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] In our study, isolated bronchial anthracofibrosis occurred predominantly in elderly patients with a mean age of 70 years with no gender predilection. [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] In our study, isolated bronchial anthracofibrosis occurred predominantly in elderly patients with a mean age of 70 years with no gender predilection.…”

Biomass smoke induced bronchial anthracofibrosis: Presenting features and clinical course

“…In Korea, as in the case of this study, the most common abnormality of the ventilatory function in BAF is an obstructive pattern. 3,4,12,32 Although the use of fixed ratio of FEV 1 /FVC < 0.7 may result in over diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in milder patients who are elderly, 31,33 BAF patients without associated disease are usually classified as having chronic…”

“…2e4,12 Therefore, it was recently suggested that factors other than tuberculosis are responsible for the development of BAF, and the long-term exposure to biomass smoke, mainly wood smoke, is one of them. 3,4,12,13 In developing nations, biomass fuels are used extensively for home heating and cooking. 14 Epidemiologic studies 15e26 show that cooking smoke appears to increase the risk of chronic lung diseases.…”

Black lungs and tuberculosis

“…It had been postulated that anti-tuberculous chemotherapy should always be given to someone with BAF but current evidence demands positivity of cultures first [14]. We started the quadruple regimen as the patient had reported systemic symptoms.…”