Table 3 Outcomes of retreatment cases by WHO retreatment category
Type of retreatment | Treatment outcome | Adverse outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Successful | Adverse | Failure | Died | LTFU | Transfer-out | Not -evaluated | |
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
Smear-positive relapse: n = 196 | 134 (68.4) | 62 (31.6) | 9 (4.6) | 9 (4.6) | 23 (11.7) | 7 (3.6) | 14 (7.0) |
Smear-positive return after failure: n = 44 | 30 (68.2) | 14 (31.8) | 4 (9.1) | 3 (6.9) | 5 (11.4) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (4.5) |
Smear-positive return after LTFU: n = 158 | 79 (50) | 79 (50.0) | 3 (1.9) | 19 (12) | 26 (16.4) | 12 (7.6) | 19 (12.0) |
Retreatment ‘others’: n = 332 | 167 (50.3) | 165 (49.7) | 3 (0.9) | 41 (12.3) | 66 (19.9) | 18 (5.4) | 37 (11.0) |
Total; n = 730 | 410 (56.2) | 320 (43.8) | 19 (2.6) | 72 (9.9) | 120 (16.4) | 37 (5) | 72 (9.9) |