Tuberculosis Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Pulmonary === If a tuberculosis infection does become active, it most commonly involves the lungs (in about 90% of cases).<ref name=Lancet11/><ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Behera D |title=Textbook of Pulmonary Medicine|year=2010|publisher=Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-8448-749-7|page=457|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0TbJjd9eTp0C&pg=PA457|edition=2nd|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906185549/https://books.google.com/books?id=0TbJjd9eTp0C&pg=PA457|archive-date=6 September 2015}}</ref> Symptoms may include [[chest pain]] and a prolonged cough producing sputum.<!-- <ref name=Lancet11/> --> About 25% of people may not have any symptoms (i.e., they remain asymptomatic).<ref name=Lancet11/> Occasionally, people may [[hemoptysis|cough up blood]] in small amounts, and in very rare cases, the infection may erode into the [[pulmonary artery]] or a [[Rasmussen's aneurysm]], resulting in massive bleeding.<ref name=ID10/><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Halezeroğlu S, Okur E | title = Thoracic surgery for haemoptysis in the context of tuberculosis: what is the best management approach? | journal = Journal of Thoracic Disease | volume = 6 | issue = 3 | pages = 182–85 | date = March 2014 | pmid = 24624281 | pmc = 3949181 | doi = 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2013.12.25 }}</ref> Tuberculosis may become a chronic illness and cause extensive scarring in the upper lobes of the lungs.<!-- <ref name=ID10/> --> The upper lung lobes are more frequently affected by tuberculosis than the lower ones.<ref name=ID10/> The reason for this difference is not clear.<ref name="Robbins" /> It may be due to either better air flow,<ref name="Robbins" /> or poor [[lymph]] drainage within the upper lungs.<ref name=ID10/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page