title: [The clinical characteristics of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients dying over the course of the year after its detection].
abstract: With a view to studying cases and causes of death in 87 those having contracted pulmonary tuberculosis in 1989-1991 and died within one year after its detection, medical histories and outpatient medical records of the deceased were analysed as were findings from post mortem examinations, data on those pulmonary tuberculosis cases detected too late. Men died twice as frequently as women. Overwhelming majority of these were people beyond fifty years of age. Prevailed this series were extended destructive forms of pulmonary tuberculosis. Concomitant pathology conducive to death includes diseases of the circulatory, respiratory organs, alcoholism, diabetes mellitus. The immediate causes of death were cardiac and pulmonary insufficiency, cachexia and intoxication, pulmonary hemorrhage.
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Zakopaĭlo
authors.forename: I N
authors.initials: IN
authors.lastname: Gorbatiuk
authors.forename: Z A
authors.initials: ZA
authors.lastname: Sheremet
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Regan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D014455:Ukraine / Q000453:epidemiology