First author, year | Years included | Location | Inclusion criteria | # of patients | Percent male | Race, percent |
Maartens, 1990 | 1978 to 1987 | Groote Schuur Hospital (community-based teaching hospital in South Africa) | Miliary pattern on CXR plus MTB on culture from any site; or biopsy or autopsy evidence of miliary organ involvement with TB | 109 | 51 | African population, 45, mixed population, 49, White population, 6 |
Kim, 1990 | 1975 to 1988 | Duke University Medical Center and Durham VA Hospital Durham, North Carolina | Discharge diagnosis of disseminated or miliary TB | 38 | 50 | African American population, 50* |
Gelb, 1973 | 1960 to 1970 | UCLA Hospital Los Angeles, California | Miliary pattern on CXR and one or more: | 109 | 59 | African American population, 81 |
1. MTB on culture | ||||||
2. Biopsy or autopsy showing caseating granulomas with AFB | ||||||
3. Clinical presentation and response consistent with TB | ||||||
Munt, 1971 | 1954 to 1970 | Sanitorium drawing from eastern part of North Carolina | "Acute, diffuse pulmonary and extra-pulmonary dissemination of TB, usually associated with a miliary pattern on CXR, with either MTB by culture or response to TB therapy" | 69 | 65 | African American population, 87 |
Proudfoot, 1969 | 1954 to 1967 | Edinburgh, Scotland | "Adults diagnosed in Edinburgh as having disseminated TB" | 40 | 40 | Non-British population, <1 |
Biehl, 1957 | 1951 to 1956 | Cincinatti General (city teaching hospital Cincinatti, Ohio) | Bacteriologic or pathologic diagnosis of miliary tuberculosis or probable diagnosis with response to therapy | 68 | 69 | African American population, 23 |
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