NCT06737029Completed
Alternative Diagnoses in Patients About to Start Empiric Tuberculosis Treatment
Enhanced Diagnostic Workup for Patients About to Start Empiric Tuberculosis Treatment in Lusaka, Zambia
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 25 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study is being conducted to determine whether in patients who are diagnosed with tuberculosis on a clinical basis (where tuberculosis is not found in the sputum) might have other lung diseases than tuberculosis. Depending on the precise nature of your complaints, additional investigations shall be requested by the study investigators. Possible additional investigations will include laboratory tests on samples of your blood, an additional chest X-ray, lung function testing (where you will have to blow air into a machine, so that your lung capacity is registered), CT-scan, and bronchoscopy. The information obtained through the investigations done in this study will help in the management of your illness and other patients who are diagnosed with tuberculosis on a clinical basis.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 311 (actual)
- First submitted
- 8 Dec 2024
- Start date
- 1 Dec 2024
- Primary completion date
- 10 Aug 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Stichting Longartsen voor Afrika
- Diseases
- Tuberculosis
- NCT number
- NCT06737029
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Participants enrolled: 311
- From 1 Dec 2024 to the primary completion date, 10 Aug 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- suspected drug-resistant tuberculosis
- inpatient (because of suspected tuberculosis)
Other
- unable to visit central study site for review or additional investigations
Who the study is looking for
- adult patient
- about to start TB treatment for suspected pulmonary tuberculosis, but with sputum GeneXpert negative
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Teaching Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lusaka | Zambia | Unknown status |
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