title: [Analysis of hospitalized tuberculosis patients at the Institute for Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis in Belgrade, Serbia during 1988].
abstract: The report presents the analysis of TB patients treated at the Institute for lung diseases and tuberculosis of SR of Serbia during 1988--a total of 567 or 10.18% of discharged patients. There were 77% TB patients from Belgrade and 23% from the province. Tuberculosis retains the characteristics of a social disease with a morbidity peak in the fourth decade of age. There were 93% of cases discovered due to disease symptoms. In 82% of patients it was a case of newly discovered specific process, 7.5% had a recurrent disease and 10.5% of patients had a chronic form of the disease. The patients had almost all forms of the specific process: primary tuberculosis 0.35%, postprimary phthisis 84.4%, specific pleuritis 10.6%, tuberculom 1.9%, miliary tuberculosis 1.8%, lymphoglandular tuberculosis 0.9%, while 1.4% had extrathoracic specific lesions associated with pulmonary lesions. Cavernous tuberculosis was observed in 89% of TB patients and extensive phthisis in 14% of cases. Atypical forms of parenchymal specific process were observed in 12% patients. Bacteriological or histological confirmation of tuberculosis existed for 82%. In 13% of patients treatment lasted longer than 3 months. Six or 1% of patients died due to pulmonary tuberculosis.
authors.affiliation: Univerzitetski Klinicki Centar, Beograd.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Radosavljević
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Raković
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bogdanović
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kacar
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy
vernacular_title: Analiza hospitalizovanih tuberkuloznih bolesnika u Institutu za plućne bolesti i tuberkulozu SR Srbije u Beogradu u toku 1988. godine.