Problemy tuberkuleza
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Problemy tuberkuleza · Jan 2002
Comparative Study[Clinical picture and treatment of tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients].
In the Orenburg Region, HIV-infected individuals fall ill with tuberculosis tens time more frequently than uninfected ones. Thirty five HIV-infected patients with tuberculosis and 32 patients without immunodeficiency (a control group) were examined and treated. ⋯ Multidrug resistance was ascertained in 20% of cases. The efficiency of treatment in patients with double HIV/tuberculosis infection was 10-15% lower than that in those without HIV infection.
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Problemy tuberkuleza · Jan 2001
Comparative Study[Approaches to combined therapy of pulmonary tuberculosis in adolescents excreting drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis].
The data are presented on 138 adolescents with active, advanced tuberculosis. M. tuberculosis were detected in the sputum and bronchial lavage of 75(54.3%) adolescents. 32 patients had M. tuberculosis resistant to drugs. 28 untreated patients demonstrated primary drug resistance (37.5%). Intensive combined treatment with consideration of bacterial resistance, administration of reserve drugs, wide spectrum medicines bring about positive results, but in patients with drug resistance positive dynamics is slow.
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Problemy tuberkuleza · Jan 2001
Comparative Study[Diagnosis of tuberculosis: possibilities and limitations].
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Problemy tuberkuleza · Jan 2001
[Questionnaire survey of patients with tuberculosis: bioethical aspects].
An anonymous questionnaire was filled by 129 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis to study bioethical aspects. It contained questions concerning a patient's attitude to obtaining full information on his/her disease, treatments, and physician-patient relations, keeping his/her disease confidential from the relatives, controlled and obligatory treatments.