Concept Map TB
Concept Map TB
Concept Map TB
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
RISK FACTORS Etiological Agent: Mycobacterium
Non-Modifiable tuberculosis
Factors Bacteria go to alveoli, deposit and
Age (Older Adults) multiply SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
However, all age Stimulate body’s immune response Lack of Appetite
groups are at risk.
Macrophages destroy many Unexplained Weight
Modifiable Factors Loss
bacteria and normal tissue
Close contact with
Infected Person Necrotic degeneration occurs
Weakened Immune (Production of cavity filled with
System cheese like mass of tubercle bacilli,
dead WBC’s and dead tissue)
PHARMACOLOGY PROGNOSIS
Levofloxacin Treatment of MDR-TB for this pt lasts for a
long duration of approximately 1 1/2 year
Bedaquiline
MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS and consists of a combination of multiple
Clofazimine
second-line drugs, which are more
Pyridoxine
Multi-drug resistant TB expensive, less effective, and more toxic
Pyrazinamide than the first-line drugs. Therefore,
(MDR-TB)
Ethambutol treatment outcome is poor, with a success
Isoniazid rate of approximately 54%. However, the pt
Cycloserine completed the additional 9 months of
treatment and showed 100% clearance in
the labs and diagnostics results.