title: [Myocardial involvement in pulmonary tuberculosis patients suffering from alcoholism].
abstract: The author studied the myocardial contractile capacity and pulmonary artery pressure in 390 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis; 250 of them suffered of chronic alcoholism (stage II-56.4%). After single intakes of alcohol patients with focal tuberculosis showed the smallest reduction of the myocardial contractile function (in 41.7%) while in infiltrative tuberculosis these changes were more pronounced and occurred frequently (84%). Most pronounced were the changes in fibrous-cavernous tuberculosis, occurring in all patients.
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Mel'nik
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000503:physiopathology; D002310:Cardiomyopathy, Alcoholic / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000503:physiopathology*
vernacular_title: Porazhenie miokarda u bol'nykh tuberkulezom legkikh, stradaiushchikh khronicheskim alkogolizmom.