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Volume 24, Number 3—March 2018
Research

Use of Verbal Autopsy to Determine Underlying Cause of Death during Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, India

Poonam Ramesh NaikComments to Author , Patrick K. Moonan, Abhay Subhashrao Nirgude, Hemant Deepak Shewade, Srinath Satyanarayana, Pracheth Raghuveer, Malik Parmar, Chinnappareddy Ravichandra, and Anil Singarajipura
Author affiliations: Yenepoya Medical College, Yenepoya University, Mangalore, India (P.R. Naik, A.S. Nirgude, P. Raghuveer); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (P.K. Moonan); International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, New Delhi, India (H.D. Shewade, S. Satyanarayana); World Health Organization Country Office for India, New Delhi (M. Parmar); National Tuberculosis Institute, Bangalore, India (C. Ravichandra); Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore (A. Singarajipura)

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Table 2

Underlying cause of death for patients who died during treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, Karnataka, India*

Underlying cause of death (ICD-10 code) No. patients, n = 72
Infectious diseases (A00–B99)
  Tuberculosis (A15)* 55
  Diarrhea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin (A09) 2
  HIV disease resulting in infectious and parasitic infection (B20)
 3
Neoplasms (C00–D48)
  Malignant neoplasm of other and unspecified parts of tongue (C02)
 1
Disease of the nervous system (G00–G99)
  Hemiplegia (G81)
 1
Diseases of the circulatory system (I00–I99)
  Hypertensive heart failure (I11) 1
  Acute myocardial infarction (I21) 1
  Hypotension (I95)
 1
Diseases of the digestive system (K00–K93)
  Alcoholic gastritis (K29.2) 1
  Peptic ulcer, site unspecified (K27) 1
  Alcoholic liver disease (K70) 3
  Acute hepatic failure, not otherwise specified (K72)
 1
Symptoms, signs, and abnormal clinical and laboratory finding, not elsewhere classified (R00–R99)
  Other ill-defined and unspecified causes of mortality (R99) 1

*Underlying cause of death was assigned as TB if it had initiated the sequence of morbid events leading directly to death. ICD-10, International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision.

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