Chapter 3. Treatment

• Introduction
• Individualized Regimens
  • Monoresistance
    • INH
    • Rifampin
    • Others
  • Polyresistance
    • TABLE 1: Treatment Regimens for the Management of Monoresistant and Polyresistant TB
  • Multidrug Resistance
    • FIGURE 1: Building a Treatment Regimen for MDR-TB
    • Guidelines for Management of MDR-TB
    • Individual Regimens for MDR-TB
    • TABLE 2: Treatment Regimens for the management of patients with MDR-TB
  • Extensive Drug Resistance
    • FIGURE 2: Building a Treatment Regimen for XDR-TB
• Selection and Dosing of Drugs
  • TABLE 3: Selected Series of MDR-TB, Variables, and Outcomes
    (2 pages)
  • Specific Drugs
  • TABLE 4: Cross-Resistance for Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs
• Administration of the Regimen
  • Escalation of Dosages
  • FIGURE 3: Dose Escalation (Drug Ramping)
• Role of Surgery
• High-Risk Groups
  • Treatment Failure
  • Relapse After Treatment
  • Contacts of a Drug-Resistant Case
  • Persons from Regions of Prevalence
• Starting an Expanded Empiric Treatment Regimen
• Consultation with Experts
• Summary
• References