TUBERCULOSIS AND PREGNANCY: MYTHS AND TRUTHS

Abstract

SUMMARY Introduction. Currently the tuberculosis is inserted in the technological age and the specialists who work in the scope of the clinical tisiology refute the myths of the past, paradigms of the pre-quimioterapic antituberculosis period, where questions without scientific consecrating the myths of the medicine that later would confirm as truths, and whose technological advances and researches had confirm that the tuberculostatics medicines are undamaged to the binomial mother/concept. A lot of arguments and correlations are presented between what it is truth and myth in the gestation with regard to the binomial mother/concept ahead of the tuberculosis. Objectives. On the basis of the displayed one and considering that studies regarding the subject in guideline: truths and myths involving the tuberculosis and pregnancy are rare, objective with the present study to elucidate this question from the uncertainties that afflict medical students and that they could reflect as for effect in the binomial front to the chemotherapy antituberculosis the short and long stated period. Methodology. Simple, opportune and current on a sufficiently controversial subject in the scope of the clinical tisiology: “tuberculosis and pregnancy”, this research is about a descriptive observational study of the type series of cases in which the authors had analyzed ten handbooks (ANNEX I) of patients taken care of in period of 2000 to the 2009 in the Hospital Complex Clementino Fraga (CHCF). DESCRIPTORS: Tuberculosis; Mother/concept; Pregnancy. Quimioterapic.