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Introduction: Due to the predominantly cellular immunosuppression, infections are frequent in chronic dialysis patients, in particular tuberculosis (TB). The main objective of our study is to evaluate tuberculosis healthcare delay in dialysis patients and to raise the diagnostic challenge in these patients.
Material and methods: The study is retrospective and multicenter including tuberculosis cases of chronic dialysis patients either in hemodialysis (HD) or peritoneal dialysis (PD) in the central region of Morocco during a 10-year period between 2012 and 2021.
Results: We included 94 patients, five of whom were in PD, with a mean age of 50.79 ± 16.72 years, and a sex ratio of 0.67. The time between the initiation of dialysis and the onset of the clinical and biological presentation was 50.3 ± 67.12 months. The most frequent initial manifestations were an alteration of the general state (85.1%), a biological inflammatory syndrome (83%) or a prolonged fever (70.1%). Among our 94
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