title: [Treatment of immunodeficient conditions caused by viral infection with the Soviet immunomodulator kemantan in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis].
abstract: Observation of 219 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis was made to study the effect of acute respiratory viral infection (ARVI) on the course of the disease. The affected were divided into 2 groups: 136 subjects who had ARVI and 83 persons who did not have it during their stay at a hospital. Patients with infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis, and young and middle-aged men were prevalent in both groups. It was found that ARVI promoted the aggravation of a specific process in the lungs in 19.1 per cent of the patients. Keeping in mind a large proportion of aggravations and low immunologic indices as a consequence of ARVI, 14 patients were put on kemantan. Study of the immune status of the patients who had ARVI and received kemantan demonstrated a significant increase in the formation of blasts and the concentration of T cells whose functional activity tended to rise. At the same time the above-mentioned indices remained intact or tended to drop in patients receiving no kemantan. The Soviet immunomodulator kemantan is recommended for a combined treatment of the pulmonary tuberculosis patients who had intercurrent viral infection to stimulate cellular immune defences and prevent an aggravation of the specific process.
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Kossii
authors.forename: I S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Khomenko
authors.forename: V Ia
authors.initials: VIa
authors.lastname: Gergert
mesh_terms: D000218:Adamantane / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000276:Adjuvants, Immunologic / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007153:Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000276:immunology*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications / Q000276:immunology*; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000276:Adjuvants, Immunologic; C068220:kemantane; D000218:Adamantane
vernacular_title: Lechenie immunodefitsitnykh sostoianiĭ, vyzvannykh perenesennoĭ virusnoĭ infektsieĭ, otechestvennym immunomoduliatorom kemantanom u bol'nykh tuberkulezom legkikh.