title: [Characteristics of the clinical course of progressive forms of pulmonary tuberculosis in adolescents].
abstract: The authors analyse the data obtained on 366 tuberculous adolescents treated in the central Research Institute of Tuberculosis in 1989-1990. Active disease occurred in 30% of them. As evident from larger proportion of infiltrative tuberculosis with destruction and dissemination, the incidence rate of which had grown from 11.5% in 1989 to 40% in 1992 and of caseous pneumonia (the growth, respectively, from 7.7% in 1990 to 25% in 1992), clinical patterns of tuberculosis takes a more serious course. Of late, caseous pneumonia in adolescents has been characterized by an acute onset, loss of weight against severe intoxication, pronounced bacterial discharge, shifts in blood and immunity indices, associated affections. Most of the adolescents were infected in their family who had failed to receive BCG revaccination. Adequate combined treatment has resulted in favourable outcomes which, however, have been often accompanied by defective healing.
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Firsova
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Ovsiankina
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*
vernacular_title: Osobennosti klinicheskogo techeniia progressiruiushchikh form tuberkuleza legkikh u podrostkov.