Lung Health After Tuberculosis: Clinical and Functional Assessment in Post Pulmonary Tuberculosis Egyptian Patients.

Inclusion Criteria: * Patient completed an outpatient course of standard first line anti-tuberculosis therapy and declared as cured Exclusion Criteria: * Smoker (to avoid spirometry biases). * Extrapulmonary tuberculosis cases * Multidrug resistant tuberculosis * known contraindications to spirometry testing * Individuals with chest wall deformities or neuromuscular diseases * Patients who failed to achieve acceptability and reproducibility criteria of the spirometry test * Defaulter cases or irregular treatment, * known coexisting chronic lung disease as history of asthma or interstitial lung diseases * A history of illicit drug use * Patients with comorbidities: renal and hepatic insufficiency, heart diseases and metabolic disorders.