Problemy tuberkuleza
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Erythema nodosum was registered in 45 from 502 sarcoidosis patients (9%). Erythema often arose in initial sarcoidosis, but was also recorded in the disease recurrences. ⋯ Sarcoidosis of the above sites is the second in occurrence among extrapulmonary lesions following those of peripheral lymph nodes. Positive effects in the treatment of erythema nodosum were reached after administration of corticosteroids, noncorticosteroid anti-inflammatory drugs, physiotherapy, local therapy.
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Problemy tuberkuleza · Jan 1991
Case Reports[Tuberculosis in young children not vaccinated with BCG].
Manifestations of tuberculosis infection were studied in 168 infants aged 3 months to 3 years of whom 32.7% had not been given BCG vaccine at birth and 67.3% received improper vaccination (the postvaccinal skin signs were absent in all patients). In 58.9% of the infants, local tuberculosis ran along with complications: dissemination into the lungs and other organs were detected in 44.4%, bronchopulmonary lesions in 42.4%, destruction of lung tissue in 18.2% and tuberculous extrapulmonary lesions in 28.3% of the infants. ⋯ Acute tuberculosis (tuberculous meningitis, miliary and progressive tuberculosis with fatal outcome) in infancy is common in 75-100% of the unvaccinated children. Hence immunoprophylaxis of tuberculosis in newborns must be developed and improved.