title: [Efficacy of clinical follow-up of patients with tuberculosis of the respiratory organs in terms of their cure under present-day epidemiological conditions].
abstract: A total of 884 newly detected patients with tuberculosis of the respiratory organs with degradation were followed up for 9 years (1987-1995). Control group consisted of 1419 patients with respiratory tuberculosis without degradation. As a result of treatment, the destruction focus was healed in 3 years in 73.4% patients and bacteria no longer released in 77.4%. Remote results (after 3, 6, and 9 years) indicate that adequate treatment helps attain cure during the second and third year of the follow-up. Untimely transfer of the patients into inactive groups (40.4% after 3 years) leads to early relapses of tuberculosis, and thus groups of chronic patients are formed both among tuberculosis patients with initially detected destruction and without it (4.5 and 2.2%, respectively). The number of clinically cured patients by the end of the ninth year was 56.6 and 77%, respectively; 7.4 and 4.7% patients were still registered in the active groups.
authors.affiliation: Central NII of Tuberculosis, Moscow.
authors.forename: S I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Kovaleva
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Voloshina
authors.forename: K N
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Shmakova
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents