title: [The risk of reactivation of post-tuberculosis changes in patients with severe somatic diseases].
abstract: To establish the risk of tuberculosis reactivation in subjects who had severe somatic conditions, 103 patients were observed in a multiprofile general hospital and followed-up for 1-3 years after their discharge. A potential and actual risk (estimated to be 78.0 +/- 6.5 and 7.3 +/- 4.0% of the cases, respectively) for recurrent tuberculosis was recorded as a result of the excretion of conditionally stable and unstable M. tuberculosis L-forms. The importance of the nature and the degree of residual tuberculous changes in view of a specific process reactivation risk for the patients was confirmed. It was indicated that the persons with severe somatic conditions and residual tuberculous changes in respiratory organs made up a tuberculosis risk group to be observed by a phthisiologist.
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Biron
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D012307:Risk Factors; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000209:etiology*
vernacular_title: Risk reaktivatsii posttuberkuleznykh izmeneniĭ u lits s tiazhelymi somaticheskimi zabolevaniiami.