Interpreting outcomes

Analysis of clinical forms of tuberculosis in patients of a pulmonological showed that 65.5% of them had infiltrative tuberculosis, 13.8% fibrocavernous tuberculosis, 10.4% disseminated tuberculosis, 6.9% focal tuberculosis, and 1.7% tuberculoma. It was ascertained that in these patients destructive tuberculous changes were common and occurred in 67.2% and tuberculosis was concurrent with other lung diseases in 70.7%. This follows that special attention should be given to the patients of pulmonological hospitals and sputum tests for mycobacteria are to be performed 3 times.