title: [Surgical treatment of patients with multi-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis--case reports].
abstract: Two patients with multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis were surgically treated after 3 and 7 years of unsuccessful chemotherapy. There was pneumonectomy in one case and lobectomy with segmentectomy in the second. Pneumonectomy was complicated by bronchopleural fistula. Both patients become sputum culture negative after surgical treatment but first patient died 5 months after surgery because of acute hepatitis.
authors.affiliation: I Kliniki Gruźlicy i Chorób Płuc Instytutu Gruźlicy, Warszawie.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Michałowska-Mitczuk
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kuś
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001983:Bronchial Fistula / Q000209:etiology; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D004977:Ethambutol / Q000008:administration & dosage; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D007538:Isoniazid / Q000008:administration & dosage; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000009:adverse effects; D011718:Pyrazinamide / Q000008:administration & dosage; D012293:Rifampin / Q000008:administration & dosage; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology; D013307:Streptomycin / Q000008:administration & dosage; D018088:Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / Q000601:surgery*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology / Q000601:surgery*
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents; D011718:Pyrazinamide; D004977:Ethambutol; D007538:Isoniazid; D012293:Rifampin; D013307:Streptomycin
vernacular_title: Leczenie chirurgiczne chorych na gruźlice płuc oporna na leki przeciwpratkowe--opis przypadków.